Dialogues: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fw: bell hooks (1952

The resources turf war is real, African Studies programs may benefit from Title 7 funding from the State Department for less taught languages and area studies, with scholars of European descent being more prominent in the field. Black Studies, African American Studies, Africana Studies, or Afreicology, is more revolutionary, having emerged from the organized demand of students and their allies in the community, Black and others, and making the road for other programs like Women and Gender Studies, Labor Studies, Hispanic Studies, Jewish Studies, Critical Islam Studies, Asian American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Lesbian and Gay Studies, even Critical Whiteness Studies, etc, that did not exist before there was Black Studies. I prefer Africana Studies and would like to see the elite African Studies programs around the world transformed into Africana Studies programs to cover the global African presence through critical, creative, and centered intellectual-activism.

Biko

On Thursday, 16 December 2021, 18:00:07 GMT-5, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

Biko:

Is Black Studies and African Studies the same?

They float dangerously apart, in conflict-embedded academic spaces, avoiding activists who attempt to blend both.

From: 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Date: Thursday, December 16, 2021 at 4:49 PM
To: 'Emeagwali, Gloria (History)' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fw: bell hooks (1952 - 2021)

Huge loss. I nearly asked her this question but the queue to ask questions was long. I managed to ask the same question to Cornel West during his Democracy Matters tour, having identified the gap in both of their knowledge about Africa in their joint text, Breaking Bread. The question is why they avoid citing African authorities when such references would support some of their arguments. For instance, Cornel West quotes jazz musicians alongside Russian novelists, American and Greek philosophers on something like democracy whereas Greek city states were not democratic - they were monarchical enslaving societies where women and children were not citizens just like in the history of America. Surely, people of African descent have better lessons in the history and novels of direct democracies in non-monarchical African societies than from societies with the slavery mode of production when it comes to advancing democracy. Being a feminist theorist of African descent, why did bell hooks ignore the work of African feminists and womanists who could have supported many of her theories and thereby made her work more relevant to Africana Studies? I enjoy learning from and citing hooks but a prominent African female intellectual asked me this question; that woman you are citing all the time, has she ever cited you or the African women writing similar stuff? If not why not? Cornel West answered me the question by promising to cite more African sources in the future, but he is yet to do so o. Why now?

Biko

On Thursday, 16 December 2021, 13:54:07 GMT-5, 'Emeagwali, Gloria (History)' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

From: Abdul Alkalimat <mcworter@illinois.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2021 10:17 AM
To: abdulslist@lists.illinois.edu <abdulslist@lists.illinois.edu>
Subject: bell hooks (1952 - 2021)

Please be cautious: **External Email**

bell hooks

Bio

wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks

essence
https://www.essence.com/news/bell-hooks-obituary/

Legacy

bell hooks Center Berea College
https://www.berea.edu/bhc/pride/

Talks

CSPAN
https://www.c-span.org/person/?41634/bellhooks

University of Washington
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDRP2F4JXE0

Conversations

with Beverly Guf-Sheftall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb5ktcC3UEk

with Gloria Steinem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkzOFvfWRn4

with Cornel West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LL0k6_pPKw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjRSk4hlrtI

with Kevin Powell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoXNzyK70Bk

with Laverne Cox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oMmZIJijgY

Interviews

1995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ShWJf8BIqI

--
Listserv moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin
To post to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com
To subscribe to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue+subscribe@googlegroups.com
Current archives at http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue
Early archives at http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index.html
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "USA Africa Dialogue Series" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to usaafricadialogue+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/usaafricadialogue/BL0PR01MB4514869678DEA48F5BDD7581DE779%40BL0PR01MB4514.prod.exchangelabs.com.

--
Listserv moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin
To post to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com
To subscribe to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue+subscribe@googlegroups.com
Current archives at http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue
Early archives at http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index.html
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "USA Africa Dialogue Series" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to usaafricadialogue+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/usaafricadialogue/SN7PR06MB72476967D604A17A1A8A7ED2F8779%40SN7PR06MB7247.namprd06.prod.outlook.com.

Dialogues

Thursday, December 16, 2021

Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fw: bell hooks (1952 - 2021)

No comments:

Post a Comment

Followers

Blog Archive

About Me