Black Studies, Afrocentrism and coalition-building: St. Clair Drake's Black Folk Here and There

Black Scholar

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 2-10

  Gaines, Kevin ^a  

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EID: 33846020896     PISSN: 00064246     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00064246.2002.11431165     Document Type: Review

References (16)

1. Maryse Condé, Tree of Life (New York: Ballantine Books, 1992).
2. St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton, Black Metropolis (New York: Harper and Row, 1962);
3. St. Clair Drake, Black Folk Here and There (Los Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies, 1987). Drake dedicated Black Folk Here and There to his mentor, Allison Davis, whose writings "inspired the students of the twenties and thirties to search for meaning in the Black experience."
4. Wilson J. Moses, Afrotopia: The Origins of African American Popular History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
5. Cheikh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilization (New York: L. Hill, 1974);
6. Martin Bernal, Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987).
7. Wahneema Lubiano, ed., The House That Race Built (New York: Pantheon, 1997).
8. Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters (New York: The New Press, 1999), provides a general account, though it is generally silent on AMSAC and African American politics.
9. St. Clair Drake, "Toward an Intellectual Framework," Box 25, Folder labeled "various articles," in St. Clair Drake Papers, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.
10. St. Clair Drake, "Remarks at Walter Rodney Symposium," n.d., Stanford University, Drake Papers, Box 24, Folder 2, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library. On Rodney, see Rupert Charles Lewis, Walter Rodney's Intellectual and Political Thought (Detroit: Wayne State University-Press, 1998).
11. For an important critique of liberal academic social science grounded in the social movements of the 1960s, see Joyce Ladner, ed., The Death of White Sociology (New York: Random House, 1973).
12. Degler, Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States (New York: Macmillan, 1971)
13. quoted in Drake, Black Folk Here and There, p. 68.
14. Drake, Ibid., p. 115.
15. Ibid., pp. 102-109.
16. IS. Amy Binder, "Friend and Foe: Boundary Work and Collective Identity in the Afrocentric and Multicultural Curriculum Movements in American Public Education," Michele Lament, ed., The Cultural Territories of Race: Black and White Boundaries (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), pp. 221-248.