African Studies: New Directions, Global Engagements

In 1997, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza wrote as president of the African Studies Association that the field of African studies had been plagued by perpetual crisis since its institutionalization in the 1950s. The crisis had its roots in deeply embedded historical structures of race and hierarchy, on the one h...

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Published in:	Africa today 2016-12, Vol.63 (2), p.66-75
Main Author:	Monson, Jamie
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Africa African culture African diaspora African history African studies Analytical forecasting Black studies Blacks Cold War Collaboration Continents Diaspora Forecasts and trends Funding Government crises International aspects Market trend/market analysis Scholars Studies Study and teaching Study and teaching (Higher) Sustainable agriculture SYMPOSIUM: AFRICAN STUDIES AND THE CHALLENGE OF THE “GLOBAL” IN THE 21ST CENTURY Urban agriculture
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Summary:	In 1997, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza wrote as president of the African Studies Association that the field of African studies had been plagued by perpetual crisis since its institutionalization in the 1950s. The crisis had its roots in deeply embedded historical structures of race and hierarchy, on the one hand, and institutional power over the production of knowledge on the other. He wrote that scholars in the field were working in unyielding solitudes and bitter contestations that divided African American from European American and from African scholars. Sandra E. Greene, speaking as president of the African Studies Association the following year, made a similar argument, stating that the crisis in the field would continue so long as Africanist scholarship from the North continued to play a gatekeeping role and remained detached from African realities. In 2010, Paul Zeleza published in the African Studies Review an article that summarized the results of a four-year project in African diaspora studies. He sought to broaden the frame of African diaspora research and analysis spatially and temporally.
ISSN:	0001-9887 1527-1978