Framing Question 1

How do we undertake the study of African American Experience.

Abstract

What does it mean to study something? To take part in the intellectual review of any topic certain guidelines must be established. The first is to acknowledge that a certain “thing” is complex enough to collect, review, and analyze information and content in said field. Second is to recognize that the “thing” in question is valuable enough or worth studying in the first place. When these two goals can be established one can truly begin to undertake the study of something

Critical Review of Scholarship

Early in the school year the rich culture of Africans was made readily apparent to me. Though I already had a baseline understanding of the culture and heritage I have learned more about the importance of African culture in the foundation of world culture and the societies that make it up. In trying to explain how to undertake the Study of the African American experience I will be referencing our first book Something Torn and New by Ngugi wa Thiongo, a book that seeks to reveal Europeans objective to strip Africans of their own culture and forcefully implant their own culture and beliefs onto them, to completely brain wash an entire peoples into forgetting their own language and birthplace

Discussion

Unlike many other fields of study that are concretely defined such as physics or English the study of the African American experience is greatly different it is not bound by the laws of nature there are not concrete rules and guidelines that define its existence. Abstract in every meaning of the word African American studies is defined by the people it’s about and who live it every day. “Black consciousness then becomes the right of black people to draw an image of themselves that negates and transcends the image of themselves that was drawn by those who would weaken them in their fight for, assertion of, their humanity—or, in the sobukwean formulation, to fight for...