Intellectual History of Africana Studies

Greg Carr- Intellectual History of Africana Studies

* Quote

* “We can say at this point that the battle to liberate African thought from nonexistence has been decisively won! The African defenders and European saviors have demolished the fabricators and their collaborating African scholars on the front. Now we must rescue the victim from European philosophy and science. African Deep Thought must now speak for itself. Rather than set up an interview schedule containing the great issues of European philosophical inquiry, African Champions must break the chain that links African ideas to European ideas and listen to the voice of the ancestors without European interpreters.”

* General Knowledge

* The Era of late Modernity

* Arguments

* Contestation between Jacob H. Carruthers “Defenders of the African way” and “The Defenders of the western way.”

* Paraphrasing

* Page 444 Paragraph 3 – In 2005 The School District of Philadelphia School reform mad it mandatory for every high school student to take at least one African American class in order to graduate.

* Reword

* “Key scholars from disciplinary African studies” helped train teachers and provided them with the right tools and strategies to engage the students

* Summary

* Scholars are committed to help the curriculum of African Studies. In order to do so you must know the genealogies of African intellectuals. Being able to go back and answer questions such as, how do people govern themselves? Or how do people remember what they have done and passed it on to other generations? Will help student be able to connect thought and make connection and be able to fully trace from then till now.

* Quotes in my paper

* “Marks, Michael Gomez, a pioneer in the field of “Diasporic African Studies”, traces several major challenges which lead to the articulation at least three: The suppression of language cultural texts an practices. The creation...