ISBN:
0813537738
,
9780813537733
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiv, 247 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version White scholars/African American texts
DDC:
305.89607300711
Keywords:
African Americans Study and teaching (Higher)
;
African Americans Historiography
;
American literature African American authors
;
Study and teaching
;
African Americans Intellectual life
;
Whites Intellectual life
;
United States
;
Teachers, White United States
;
Education, Higher Social aspects
;
United States
;
Education, Higher Political aspects
;
United States
;
African Americans Study and teaching (Higher)
;
African Americans Historiography
;
American literature African American authors
;
Study and teaching
;
African Americans Intellectual life
;
Whites Intellectual life
;
Teachers, White
;
Education, Higher Social aspects
;
Education, Higher Political aspects
;
Whites Intellectual life
;
Teachers, White
;
Education, Higher Social aspects
;
Education, Higher Political aspects
;
American literature African American authors
;
Study and teaching
;
African Americans Intellectual life
;
African Americans Historiography
;
African Americans Study and teaching (Higher)
;
African Americans ; Historiography
;
African Americans ; Intellectual life
;
African Americans ; Study and teaching (Higher)
;
American literature ; African American authors ; Study and teaching
;
Education, Higher ; Political aspects
;
Education, Higher ; Social aspects
;
Race relations
;
Teachers, White
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; African American Studies
;
United States Race relations
;
United States Race relations
;
United States Race relations
;
United States
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
The essays in this collection explore the many difficulties created by the fact that white scholars greatly outnumber black scholars in the study and teaching of African American literature. Contributors, including some of the most prominent theorists in the field as well as younger scholars, examine who is speaking, what is being spoken and what is not, and why framing African American literature in terms of an exclusive black/white racial divide is problematic and limiting. In highlighting the ""whiteness"" of some African Americanists, the collection does not imply that the teac
Abstract:
White scholars/African American texts /Lisa A. Long --Naming the problem that led to the question "Who shall teach African American literature?" ; or, Are we ready to disband the Wheatley court? /Nellie Y. McKay --Liberalism, authority, and authenticity. Theme for African American literature B /Russ Castronovo --Race walks in the room : white teachers in Black studies /John Ernest --Naming the problem embedded in the problem that led to the question "Who shall teach African American literature?" ; or, Are we ready to discard the concept of authenticity altogether? /Leslie W. Lewis --Turning impossibility into possibility : teaching Ellison, Murray, and the Blues at Tuskegee /Barbara A. Baker --Training and working in the field. Before positionality /William L. Andrews --White scholars in African American literary circles : appropriation or cultural literacy? /Venetria K. Patton --"Knowing your stuff," knowing yourself /April Conley Kilinski,Amanda M. Lawrence --At close range : being Black and mentoring whites in African American studies /Barbara McCaskill --Beyond Black and white. Faulty analogies : queer white critics reading African American texts /Sabine Meyer --The color of the critic : an intervention in the critical debate in African American theory on interpretive authority /Nita N. Kumar --Between Rome, Harlem, and Harlan /Alessandro Portelli --The stepsister and the clan : when the native teaches African American literature /Ngwarsungu Chiwengo --Twelve years with Martin Delany : a confession /Robert S. Levine --Master thoughts /Dale M. Bauer --Writing about Gwendolyn Brooks anyway /James D. Sullivan --Truth and talent in interpreting ethnic American autobiography : from white to Black and beyond /Kimberly Rae Connor.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-234) and index. - Description based on print version record
,
White scholars/African American texts
,
Naming the problem that led to the question "Who shall teach African American literature?" ; or, Are we ready to disband the Wheatley court?
,
Liberalism, authority, and authenticity. Theme for African American literature B
,
Race walks in the room : white teachers in Black studies
,
Naming the problem embedded in the problem that led to the question "Who shall teach African American literature?" ; or, Are we ready to discard the concept of authenticity altogether?
,
Turning impossibility into possibility : teaching Ellison, Murray, and the Blues at Tuskegee
,
Training and working in the field. Before positionality
,
White scholars in African American literary circles : appropriation or cultural literacy?
,
"Knowing your stuff," knowing yourself
,
At close range : being Black and mentoring whites in African American studies
,
Beyond Black and white. Faulty analogies : queer white critics reading African American texts
,
The color of the critic : an intervention in the critical debate in African American theory on interpretive authority
,
Between Rome, Harlem, and Harlan
,
The stepsister and the clan : when the native teaches African American literature
,
Twelve years with Martin Delany : a confession
,
Master thoughts
,
Writing about Gwendolyn Brooks anyway
,
Truth and talent in interpreting ethnic American autobiography : from white to Black and beyond
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