Word: afros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Women's studies and the feminist movement in general were very influential on the growth of Black Studies," says Gates. "Where the disciplines meet is on the terrain of Black women's studies. When people were starting to say that Afro-American studies was going to die, what kept it from dying was the infusion of Black women's literature...
...some professors caution that the shift from history to literature may move Afro-American studies away from the political agenda that created such departments in the first place, thereby making them too esoteric...
...recognizes that by moving Afro-American studies to the theoretical realm of literary criticism, scholars risk undermining their own political projects. "What kind of coalition is it when [your scholarship] takes you out of contact with 95 percent of my people in this country?" Baker asks...
...group, these new Black literary theorists went to first-rate colleges or graduate schools in the formative period of Afro-American Studies during the late 1960s and early 1970s. They are familiar with both the practical politics of the Civil Rights movement and the rarefied academic politics of the university...
Johnson, who has concentrated her studies on Black women writers since 1980, says generational changes have a lot to do with the resurgence of literary studies within Afro-Am. "There are a lot of scholars who got interested in Black studies in the 1960s--many of them are now tenured someplace, and that has been formative in making a body of scholarship," she says...