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Title: | 'A school in the interior': African Studies: engagement and interdisciplinarity |
Author: | Ambler, Charles |
Year: | 2011 |
Periodical: | African Studies Review (ISSN 1555-2462) |
Volume: | 54 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 1-17 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa United States |
Subjects: | African studies speeches (form) |
External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/african_studies_review/v054/54.1.ambler.pdf |
Abstract: | This article explores the intellectual traditions of African studies, focusing on the central principles of interdisciplinarity and commitment to social and racial justice. Tracing the origins of the field to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Africanist intellectuals such as Edward Blyden, it investigates these traditions historically and in the context of contemporary practice. Against the backdrop of concerns for the future of area studies, the author finds a vibrant field, both inside and beyond its traditional boundaries. The article is a slightly revised version of the Presidential Address delivered at the fifty-third Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in San Francisco in 2010. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |