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...impending, acrimonious departures of Tishman and Diker Professor of Sociology and of African and African-American Studies Lawrence D. Bobo and Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies Marcyliena Morgan, it is time to talk frankly about the state of the field at a higher level. Taking Marable??s critiques and ideas into account, a number of challenges need to be put forth to the intellectuals in the discipline. Harvard’s Dubois Institute, by virtue of the overwhelming talent and prestige of the department, as well as the media coverage garnered every time there...
...Marable??s first demand was that the black studies community redefine the history of black political thought and activism to situate it within the era of globalization—an extremely valid criticism that reflects a division in the discipline. Many black academics are caught within a paleo-liberal ideological framework, which does not reflect the rising tide of immigration or an understanding of contemporary global political economy. Much of the teaching of black political history is still couched in the binary conflict of integrationist versus separatist, which may be useful for middle school, but which...
Moreover, with blacks in the third world occupying the lowest rungs in the global economy, we need to explore Marable??s idea of a “new racial domain” and see how structural racism, mass unemployment and incarceration, disease and disenfranchisement lower the life chances of blacks globally. Instead of disregarding the political thought of Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X as anachronistic or misguided, it might be time to resurrect the Pan-African focus in order to combat the most severe crisis in the African Diaspora since colonialism. We live in a world where those...
...Marable??s second demand was that black studies combine with a new model of civic engagement in order to enact change. To that end, I offer that faculty can impact the grassroots by organizing—drumroll please—students! The apathy with which many intellectuals credit our generation is a result of being bombarded with statistics about poverty and hopelessness without being offered mentorship as we seek to solve these dilemmas. With no meaningful guidance, many black students decide to major in law, business, or medicine with a minor in black magic—the study...
Such a predicament should not be unfamiliar. I read these words recently in the context of also having heard a talk given by Manning Marable, the eminent African-American historian at Columbia University, as part of the 2004 DuBois Lectures at the W.E.B DuBois Institute. Marable??s final lecture noted the shift in the politics of affirmative action that had taken place during the latter half of the 1990s and insisted that the current generation of students re-engage with the concerns of his generation. As he reflected at one point, his own personal experience with Jim Crow...
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