Journal of Black Studies articles from May 1998

Journal of Black Studies archives from May 1998

African womanism: an Afrocentric theory.
May 1, 1998... BACKGROUND This article evolves from my study (see Dove, 1993, 1996) of the life herstories(2) of African mothers who send their children to culturally affirming schools. I focus on conceptualizing and defining the racialization of...

The federal government and the harassment of black leaders: a case study of Mayor Richard Arrington Jr. of Birmingham.
May 1, 1998... Why do people break the rules? A tremendous amount of energy has been expended by citizens and academicians in trying to answer this question. But even a superficial survey of human behavior reveals that we all break rules. Therefore, a more...

Pan-Africanism versus Pan-African Nationalism: an Afrocentric analysis.
May 1, 1998... It is the contention of this writer that the historical struggle of African peoples has heretofore been analyzed within a Eurocentric, dysfunctional, ahistorical, and divisive context, thus culminating in the use of the concept of...

The United States and Nigeria - 1960 to 1987: anatomy of a pragmatic relationship.
May 1, 1998... It is usual for a nation's interests to determine its foreign policy posture. By the 1960s, when most African states were achieving political independence, the states postulated a policy of nonalignment in the sense that they would not be tied...

Development theory, globalism, and the New World Order: the need for a postmodern, antiracist, and multicultural critique.
May 1, 1998... In a 1991 article, "P.C. and the Politics of Multiculturalism in Higher Education," Evelyn Hu-Dehart discusses and analyzes the ongoing ideological debate between those advocating multicultural education and their opponents. These so-called...

Worldview and the use of the near-White heroine in Pauline Hopkins's 'Contending Forces.'
May 1, 1998... I first became aware of Pauline Hopkins in 1976 while researching my dissertation, The Mulatto Woman as Major Female Character in Novels by Black Women: 1892-1937 (Lewis, 1981), in American Studies at the University of Iowa. I found a...

Dr. Martin Robison Delany, 19th-century Africana womanist: reflections on his avant-garde politics concerning gender, colorism, and nation building.
May 1, 1998... Past and contemporary researchers' evaluations of Martin Robison Delany's (born May 6, 1812; died January 24, 1885) achievements are glowing and quite impressive. Scholars refer to him as a "Renaissance Man" who was able to cram at least a...

Political mobilization in Sumter County, Alabama: through the prism of the indigenous perspective.
May 1, 1998... Race has long been the nucleus of politics in the southern region of the United States (Key, 1949). The outright exclusion of African Americans from the political mainstream was the centerpiece of a domination system designed to protect the...