African Studies and the Undergraduate Curriculum / / ed. by Patricia Alden, Ahmed I. Samatar, David Lloyd.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Alden, Patricia,; Berry, Sara,; Brown, W. Howard,; Davis, Gregson,; Drayton, Arthur D.,; Greene, Sandra E.,; Hale, Thomas A,; Kapteijns, Lidwien,; Lazarus, Neil,; Lloyd, David,; Martin, William G.,; McCann, James C.,; McNaughton, Patrick,; Nyamweru, Celia,; Parson, Jack,; Pickle, Joseph W.,; Robinson, Paul W.,; Samatar, Ahmed I.,; Samoff, Joel,; Seidman, Ann,; Sobania, Neal W.,; Spear, Thomas,; Stoller, Paul,; Tremaine, Louis,; Walsh, Gretchen,; Wisner, Ben,
• HerausgeberIn: Alden, Patricia,; Lloyd, David,; Samatar, Ahmed I.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

This collection of critical debates--intended for teachers of African studies and others interested in incorporating non-Western perspectives in the undergraduate liberal arts curriculum--reflects the changing educational and sociocultural contexts of the last decade.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: African Studies Within U.S. Liberal Arts Education -- PART ONE INTERCULTURALISM AND AFRICAN STUDIES -- 1 Between Cultures: Toward a Redefinition of Liberal Education -- 2 Triumphalism, Tarzan, and Other Influences: Teaching About Africa in the 1990s -- 3 Deposing Tarzan, or Teaching About Africa in the Post-Cold War Era: A Commentary on Joel Samoff -- PART TWO REASSESSMENTS AND NEW DIRECTIONS -- 4 Transnational Cultural Studies and the U.S. University -- 5 I Think You Should Hear Voices When You Look at African Art -- 6 Beyond Boundaries in the Humanities: A Response to Neil Lazarus -- 7 New Directions: Teaching Economics to Undergraduates in African Studies -- 8 Learning by Disagreeing: Comments on Ann Seidman -- 9 From Periphery to Center: African History in the Undergraduate Curriculum -- 10 Teaching African History in U.S. Colleges: A Discussion of Thomas Spear -- 11 Teaching African Science: Notes on "Common Sense," "Tribal War/' and the "End of History" -- 12 Science from Africa and Science About Africa: Comments on Ben Wisner -- 13 Information Dynamics for African Studies: Resources in Libraries and Beyond -- PART THREE PROGRAMS ABROAD -- 14 Developing an Approach to Integrated Study in a Non-Western Context: The St. Lawrence University Kenya Semester Program -- 15 Nowhere to Hide: Perspectives on an African Foreign-Study Program -- 16 "The Walk Liberating": Africa Abroad as an Undergraduate Experience -- 17 Inside or Outside the University? The Conundrum of U.S. Undergraduates in Africa -- PART FOUR THE EVOLUTION OF UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS IN AFRICAN STUDIES -- 18 Africa, Undergraduate Teaching, and Title VI African Studies Centers -- 19 Accidents in African Studies: Africa in the Curriculum at the University of Richmond -- 20 Underdevelopment and Self-Reliance in Building African Studies: Some Pedagogical, Policy, and Practical Political Issues at the College of Charleston -- 21 Program Building: Some Principles and Lessons -- 22 Tufanye Kazi Pamoja: The Association of African Studies Programs -- PART FIVE CONCLUSION -- 23 Concluding Remarks -- The Contributors -- About the Book