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Article: Towards a grand theory of Black Studies: an attempt to discern the dynamics and the direction of the discipline.
- Article from:
- The Western Journal of Black Studies
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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This paper attempts to develop a grand theory of Black Studies by drawing on the works of some of the foremost writers in, and critics of, the field. It uses the history of the Black intellectual tradition as a frame and places Black Studies in the context of multicultural studies, the contemporary academy and the development of the global economy and culture.
"One of the things missing in Black Studies is a compelling radical paradigm, a grand theory that gives guidance, shape and direction to where Black Studies is headed. This simply does not exist." (Lusane 1996, 14)
Usually, a discipline develops in tandem with the theory of the discipline. Black ...