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The Rise of African Studies (USA) and the Transnational Study of Africa
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Among Africanists, one of the remarkable events of 1957 was the founding of the African Studies Association (ASA) as discussed by the authors. Commentaries on the association's history are slight and understandably celebratory.Abstract:
Among Africanists, one of the remarkable events of 1957 was the founding of the African Studies Association. Commentaries on the association's history are slight and understandably celebratory. Exploration of archival and related sources, however, reveals considerable uncertainty and struggle over the construction of the field in the 1950s and 1960s. Those sources range across changing continental, colonial, and racial boundaries and reveal racialized relationships among U.S. scholars and especially foundation officials, British scholars and colonial officials, and, in unexpected ways, scholars in Africa and particularly South Africa. This essay traces the interplay of these forces and the demise of the transnational study of Africa in this period—and points briefly toward today's uncertain future for the study of Africa.read more
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Rethinking Colonial Categories: European Communities and the Boundaries of Rule
TL;DR: Malinowski as discussed by the authors argued that European interests and intentions were rarely unified but more often "at war" in the no-man's land of change, and pointed out that "aggressive and conquering" European communities as well as native ones were often at war.
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From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline
TL;DR: From Black Power to Black Studies as discussed by the authors explores how this radical social movement evolved into a recognized academic discipline and traces the evolution of Black Studies over more than three decades, beginning with its origins in black nationalist politics.
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The Ideology of ‘Tribalism’
TL;DR: In this article, the authors have been able to write on Africa without making constant reference to "tribalism" and "converts" in the context of African history, which is a reflection of the system of perceptions of those who wrote on Africa and of their African converts.
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The Cold War & the university : toward an intellectual history of the postwar years
TL;DR: The years following 1945 witnessed a massive change in American intellectual thought and in the life of American universities as mentioned in this paper, and many of those who had worked with the military or the Office of Strategic Studies took jobs in the burgeoning post-war structure of university-based military research and intelligence agencies.
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Universities and empire : money and politics in the social sciences during the cold war
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of US military, intelligence and propaganda agencies on academic culture and intellectual life during the Cold War are explored, examining the origins of new subjects of research such as Asian studies and development studies.