Black studies : pedagogy and revolution, a study of Afro-American studies and the liberal arts tradition through the discipline of Afro-American literature (original) (raw)

Black Studies: Pedagogy and Revolution A Study of Afro-American Studies and the Liberal Arts Tradition Through the Discipline of Afro-American Literature May 1979 Johnnella E. Butler, B.A., College of Our Lady of the Elms M.A.T., Johns Hopkins University, Ed.D., University of Massachusetts Directed by: Professor Rudine Sims The Afro-American operates within the context of an Eastern/Western, African/Euro-American, Black/White sensibility that is simultaneously in concert with and diametrically opposed to the dominant Anglo-oriented American sensibility. The Western aspect of the warring sensibilities within the Afro-American experience maintains an oppression of the African sensibility by virtue of inherent contradictions between the sensibilities, and by virtue of colonial oppression. The duality, operating within the context of the dominant either/or sensibility, is exacerbated thereby maintaining a colonized state for the