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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Rethinking Theory in Black Studies: Tradition (University of Illinois)
This is the fourth lecture in the AFRO 490 series. This lecture talks about the role of tradition within ideological frameworks and also in the political culture of everyday life. It covers the origins of African American food, names, speech, hair and stories.
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Rethinking Theory in Black Studies: Methodology (University of Illinois)
This is the second lecture in the AFRO 490 series. Alkalimat talks about methods for production of thought in Black studies. He outlines them as epistemology, sociology, history and comparative. He then talks about the D-7 approach to answering questions. This approach involves defining the problem, gathering data, digitizing information, discovering the problem, designing a response, distributing your findings, and making a difference.
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Rethinking Theory in Black Studies: History (University of Illinois)
This is the third lecture in the AFRO 490 series. This lecture aims to answer two questions. First, what is history? What has been the history of the African American experience? Second, can people create a theory of Black history, and if so, how? It talks about the Eurocentrist traditional approach, and how Black History has emerged as a theoretical approach to reinterpret and challenge this perspective.
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Rethinking Theory in Black Studies: Ideology (University of Illinois)
Sponsored by the Department of African American Studies, and Online & Continuing Education, this course is an introduction to various theories and methodologies rising out of the study of the Black world based on African American intellectual traditions. 45 years after Black Power posed a challenge to thinking by and about the African American experience it is necessary to rethink this legacy of changing consciousness. This is both a look at the theoretical formulations in the academic field of Black Studies, but more importantly it is thinking about how people can understand and be more self determining about consciousness and reorient themselves to the fight for freedom.
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