Rethinking Theory in Black Studies: Debate (University of Illinois)


This is the fifth and final lecture in the AFRO 490 lecture series. This lecture focuses on the some of the questions raised by debates in African American history. What is debate? What is a great African American debate? Abdul Alkalimat argues there were three great debates- the Emancipation Debate, the Self-Determination Debate, and the Black Liberation Debate. He talks about what can be learned from these debates, and asks what is the next Great Debate?

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