The journal of Pan African studies最新文献

{"title":"Methods Beyond Methods: A Model for Africana Graduate Methods Training.","authors":"Latrica E Best,&nbsp;W Carson Byrd","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A holistic graduate education can impart not just tools and knowledge, but critical positioning to fulfill many of the original missions of Africana Studies programs set forth in the 1960s and 1970s. As an interdisciplinary field with many approaches to examining the African Diaspora, the methodological training of graduate students can vary across graduate programs. Although taking qualitative methods courses are often required of graduate students in Africana Studies programs, and these programs offer such courses, rarely if ever are graduate students in these programs required to take quantitative methods courses, let alone have these courses offered in-house. These courses can offer Africana Studies graduate students new tools for their own research, but more importantly, improve their knowledge of quantitative research of diasporic communities. These tools and knowledge can assist with identifying flawed arguments about African-descended communities and their members. This article explores the importance of requiring and offering critical quantitative methods courses in graduate programs in Africana Studies, and discusses the methods requirements of one graduate program in the field as an example of more rigorous training that other programs could offer graduate students.</p>","PeriodicalId":92304,"journal":{"name":"The journal of Pan African studies","volume":"7 1","pages":"61-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5915346/pdf/nihms954197.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36059043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Racial Classifications, Biomarkers, and the Challenges of Health Disparities Research in the African Diaspora.","authors":"Latrica E Best, John Chenault","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Current scholarly research, both sociologically and biologically based, continues to be inundated with notions of race operating as a biological construct and as a proxy for poor health outcomes. Medical research and practice have fostered an environment where diagnostics, treatment, and the creation and dissemination of drug regimens often are influenced by a patient's skin color and ethnicity. The emergence of biological markers in social science-based surveys has fueled recent health disparities research that is shaping the meaning, interpretation, and policy of the health of people of color. Using hypertension as an example, this paper focuses on ways in which biological markers are discussed within the realm of health in the African diaspora. Additionally, the paper discusses how the quantification of disease etiology devoid of social and historical contexts can be troubling to both the social science and medical fields. Finally, the paper identifies the ways in which black scholars can shape the conversation of health inequity in future research. <i>The notion of \"racial diseases\"-that people of different races suffer from peculiar diseases and experience common diseases differently-is centuries old. It is tied to the original use of biology in inventing the political category of race</i>. -Dorothy Roberts, <i>Fatal Invention</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":92304,"journal":{"name":"The journal of Pan African studies","volume":"7 1","pages":"74-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6162056/pdf/nihms954198.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41159122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Black Fire: One Hundred Years of African American Pentecostalism","authors":"Eric R. Jackson","doi":"10.5860/choice.49-6825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.49-6825","url":null,"abstract":"During the past fifteen years, many scholars have b e n focusing their analyses on the origin and nature of the Holiness and Pentecostal m ove ents in the United States as well as worldwide. Under review here is one such study, Est relda Y. Alexander’s Black Fire: One Hundred Years of African American Pentecostalism. Raised in an urban, African American working-class community during the 1950s and 1960s, Alexander knew very little about her Christian heritage. But upon acquiring her doctorat e, she decided to investigate this topic with much vigor and passion. The outcome of her venture is this powerful and path-breaking volume that provides readers with a unique perspective on the history and impact of the African American charismatic Pentecostal movement. Specific ally, Alexander claims that the origins of this movement “not just for African American but fo r white Pentecostals as well lie within a robust African spirituality with its beliefs in a s upreme being, in the sacredness of creation, in the supernatural, in rituals of life and in ancestor ve neration” (p. 7). Furthermore, the author locates the inception of the movement within the African/Af rican American religious tradition during the enslavement period that contained a variety of vernaculars such as oral traditions, music, dancing, spiritual visions, and speaking in tongue. Finally, Alexander highlights the important roles of several nineteenth-century African America n Holiness ministers, played in this religious crusade, such as William Christian, Charles Price, and William J. Seymour and also seeks to illustrate how African American Pentecostalism has become a major force in the development of charismatic Christianity in America as well as inte r ationally.","PeriodicalId":92304,"journal":{"name":"The journal of Pan African studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75493992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Imperfections in U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Oromia and Ethiopia: Will The Obama Administration Introduce Change?","authors":"Asafa Jalata","doi":"10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim260100084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim260100084","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues that because of its perceived strategic national interest and the wrong advice it received from experts and racist assumptions about the Oromo, the U.S. government has allied with the Tigrayan minority elites to form a colonial government and to suppress the Oromo national movement. Thus, the major question becomes will the Obama administration respect the rights of African peoples in general and that of the Oromo in particular?","PeriodicalId":92304,"journal":{"name":"The journal of Pan African studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73439883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rethinking Pan-Africanism in the AU (African Union)-led Regional Integration of Africa: Identity Politics in the Diaspora Involvement, Afro-Arab Relations and Indian Ocean Islands","authors":"S. Tamura","doi":"10.7282/T3XS5TQN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7282/T3XS5TQN","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92304,"journal":{"name":"The journal of Pan African studies","volume":"88 1","pages":"291"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77624422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Life Pathways of Haitian-American Young Adults in South Florida","authors":"Patricia Vanderkooy","doi":"10.25148/ETD.FI11042709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25148/ETD.FI11042709","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92304,"journal":{"name":"The journal of Pan African studies","volume":"85 1","pages":"283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76190984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Little Mosque Poems","authors":"Mohja Kahf","doi":"10.2307/j.ctt1ggjkdz.68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1ggjkdz.68","url":null,"abstract":"In my little mosque there is no room for me to pray. I am turned away faithfully five times a day My little mosque: so meager in resources, yet so eager to turn away a woman or a stranger My little mosque is penniless, behind on rent Yet it is rich in anger every Friday, coins of hate are generously spent My little mosque is poor yet every week we are asked to give to buy another curtain to partition off the women, or to pave another parking space I go to the Mosque of the Righteous I have been going there all my life I have been the Cheerleader of the Righteous Team I have mocked the visiting teams cruelly I am the worst of those I complain about: I am a former Miss Mosque Banality I would like to build a little mosque without a dome or minaret I'd hang a sign over the door: Bad Muslims welcome here Come in, listen to some music, sharpen the soul's longing, have a cigarette I went to the mosque when no one was there and startled two angels coming out of a broom closet \"Are they gone now?\" one said They looked relieved My great big mosque has a chandelier big as a Christmas tree and a jealously guarded lock and key I wonder why everyone in it looks just like me My little mosque has a bouncer at the door You have to look pious to get in My little mosque has a big sense of humor Not I went to the mosque when no one was there The prayer space was soft and serene I heard a sound like lonely singing or quiet sobbing. I heard a leafy rustling I looked around A little Quran on a low shelf was reciting itself My little mosque has a Persian carpet depicting trees of paradise in the men's section, which you enter through a lovely classical arch The women's section features well, nothing Piety dictates that men enter my little mosque through magnificent columns Piety dictates that women enter my little mosque through the back alley, just past the crack junkie here and over these fallen garbage cans My little mosque used to be democratic with a rotating imam we chose from among us every month Now my little mosque has an appointed imam trained abroad No one can dispute his superior knowledge We used to use our minds to understand Quran My little mosque discourages that sort of thing these days We have official salaried translators for God I used to carry around a little mosque in the chambers of my heart but it is closed indefinitely pending extensive structural repairs I miss having a mosque, driving by and seeing cars lining the streets, people double-parking, desperate to catch the prayer in time I miss noticing, as they dodge across traffic toward the mosque entrance between buses and trucks, their long chemises fluttering, that trail of gorgeous fabrics Muslims leave, gossamer, the colors of hot lava, fantastic shades from the glorious places of the earth I miss the stiff, uncomfortable men looking anywhere but at me when they meet me, and the double-faced women full of judgment, and their beautiful children shining with my children. I do I don't dream o","PeriodicalId":92304,"journal":{"name":"The journal of Pan African studies","volume":"40 14","pages":"106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72409313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"To the Beat","authors":"T. Patton","doi":"10.1289/ehp.115-a349b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.115-a349b","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92304,"journal":{"name":"The journal of Pan African studies","volume":"98 1","pages":"178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86284902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Black Megachurch Culture","authors":"Sandra L. Barnes","doi":"10.3726/978-1-4539-0027-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3726/978-1-4539-0027-7","url":null,"abstract":"Black Megachurch Culture A review of Black Megachurch Culture: Models for Education and Empowerment by Sandra L. Barnes (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. 2010. 166 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4331-0908-90) Historically African American churches have been sources of strength, education, and empowerment for thousands of people of color. The Black American church experience was based upon on various religious elements such as songs, prayers, sermons, and theologies. These institutions also has both motivated and encouraged many believers routinely through their triumphs and tragedies in the history of our nation. However, during the past few decades the growth of large Black American congregations (sometimes called mega-churches) has seemingly altered the experience and purpose of hundreds of African American churches as a result of their enormous size and various types of ministries. This phenomenon has received only scant attention from most scholars. The book under review here seeks to address this shortcoming. In Black Megachurch Culture: Models for Education and Empowerment, Sandra L. Barnes discusses how African American mega-churches was built on the historical legacy of the Black American church movement because of its use of various religious vernaculars and rituals that are embedded in worship, theology, racial beliefs, programming campaigns, and other tools that aim to address and stress the concepts of societal success and good stewardship for its thousands of followers. The author also seeks to capture \"some of the dynamic inner workings of Black mega-churches that result in a seemingly static model of success\" (pp. 10-11) as well as illustrate how these institutions \"will continue to impinge upon societies' expectations about acceptable religious spaces\" (p. 12). This brief but potent book is divided into five main chapters and includes a separate introductory and conclusion section. In her first chapter Barnes describes some of the general features of African American mega-churches as well as the connection of these facilities with the cultural heritage and historical legacy of the Black American church movement. Within these pages, the author concludes that \"by tapping into the strength found in Black Church culture, the best of other Christian traditions, and the dynamics from secular society,\" Black American mega-churches have developed and cultivated strategic plans as well as created a desired atmosphere of \"spiritual living\" and \"temporal blessings\" that will led to the continued expansion of such facilities for many decades to come (p. …","PeriodicalId":92304,"journal":{"name":"The journal of Pan African studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91300527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness","authors":"G. Williams","doi":"10.1037/e719422011-021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/e719422011-021","url":null,"abstract":"[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness. Producers: Llewellyn Smith, Vincent Brown and Christine Herbes-Sommers. Vital Pictures, California Newsreel (educational distributor), Independent Television Service (Sally Jo Fifer, executive producer). DVD video (closed captioned), 57 minutes, 2009. What is Africa to me? Copper Sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black, Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang? One three centuries removed From the scenes his fathers loved. Spicy grove, cinnamon tree, What is Africa to me? Circa 150 years after Phillis Wheatley penned her famous poem about her \"pagan\" father land in \"On Being brought from Africa to America,\" the renowned Harlem renaissance poet Countee Cullen expressed a very different positive attitude regarding Africa in his classic poem \"Heritage\" written in 1925. The difference in the poetic voices and attitudes of Wheatley and Cullen are clearly representative of the ambivalence toward Africa and African cultural heritage which has been characteristic of the Black American psyche for several centuries. The two polar extremes exemplified by Wheatley and Cullen expose periods of shame and contempt about the ancestral homeland as well as times of race pride and positive identification with the mother continent. The root causes and persistence of this ambivalence among African Americans regarding the continent of their origin becomes quite clear when one understands the insidious and dehumanizing aspects of the \"Maafa, i.e. The Great Enslavement\" and its aftermath, where there were concerted and deliberate attempts through cultural racism and systematic mis-education to convince Blacks that they were biologically and intellectually inferior creatures compared to their Caucasian counterparts. According to Brown University's James T. Campbell in his ground breaking text \"Middle Passages; African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005, when an African American asks--what is Africa to me?, he or she is also asking what is America to me? He writes \"...most of African American history--and much of the history of the United States as a whole is encompassed by these two intertwined questions.\" Any serious investigation exploring the depths and profundity of the latter two questions would eventually lead us straight to the pioneering cultural work and extraordinary intellectual life of Melville Jean Herskovits (1895-1963). The phenomenal life, legacy and scholarly career of Professor Herskovits is uniquely explored in the new documentary film release from Vital Pictures. They have teamed up to produce a probing and powerful look into the influential legacy of Herskovits and his over 40 years of rigorous scholarly work and field research to document African cultural survivals/retentions in the Western Hemisphere. Entitled \"Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness\", the film has already been awarded best new documentary at the Hollywood Bl","PeriodicalId":92304,"journal":{"name":"The journal of Pan African studies","volume":"101 3 1","pages":"220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83330705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}