Department Chair of Clark Atlanta University African American Studies, Africana Women's Studies, and History
Founder of CAU Du Bois Legacy Project
Former University of Florida Chair of African American Studies Department and UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Colonel Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor, 2010-11 Supervisors: John Bracey Address: http://twitter.com/Prof_Evans
The Black Women’s Studies Booklist https://bwstbooklist.net/ is now online. This open access web ... more The Black Women’s Studies Booklist https://bwstbooklist.net/ is now online. This open access web resource is useful for research, citation, instruction, and advising for undergraduate or graduate student papers, theses, dissertations, and exams.
Black studies and women’s studies programs are beginning to commemorate 50th year anniversaries and the BWST Booklist is a timely assessment of extant scholarship. By thematically organizing a comprehensive set of over 1,400 foundational and new publications, this bibliography clarifies past, present, and forthcoming areas of research in a dynamic field.
I extend thanks to the dozens of project reviewers who helped ensure the most robust list of resources possible, especially Drs. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Patricia Bell-Scott, Bettina Aptheker; Rebecca Colesworthy of SUNY Pres; as well as Nneka Dennie and Jacinta Saffold of the newly formed Black Women’s Studies Association. Please share this resource with students and colleagues of all levels.
Creates a new framework for approaching Black women’s wellness, by merging theory and practice wi... more Creates a new framework for approaching Black women’s wellness, by merging theory and practice with both personal narratives and public policy.
This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look at the challenges and potency of Black women’s struggle for inner peace and mental stability. It brings together contributors from psychology, sociology, law, and medicine, as well as the humanities, to discuss issues ranging from stress, sexual assault, healing, self-care, and contemplative practice to health-policy considerations and parenting. Merging theory and practice with personal narratives and public policy, the book develops a new framework for approaching Black women’s wellness in order to provide tangible solutions. The collection reflects feminist praxis and defines womanist peace in terms that reject both “superwoman” stereotypes and “victim” caricatures. Also included for health professionals are concrete recommendations for understanding and treating Black women.
“…this book speaks not only to Black women but also educates a broader audience of policymakers and therapists about the complex and multilayered realities that we must navigate and the protests we must mount on our journey to find inner peace and optimal health.” — from the Foreword by Linda Goler Blount
Stephanie Y. Evans is Professor and Chair of African American Studies, Africana Women’s Studies, and History at Clark Atlanta University. She is the author of Black Passports: Travel Memoirs as a Tool for Youth Empowerment and the coeditor (with Colette M. Taylor, Michelle R. Dunlap, and DeMond S. Miller) of African Americans and Community Engagement in Higher Education: Community Service, Service-Learning, and Community-Based Research, both also published by SUNY Press. Kanika Bell is Associate Professor of Psychology at Clark Atlanta University. She is also a licensed psychologist and owner of A.T.L. Psychotherapy & Consulting Services. Nsenga K. Burton is Digital Editor of Grady Newsource at the University of Georgia, where she also teaches news writing and multi-platform production. She is the editor of The Burton Wire.
Researchers who document yoga's popularity in the United States likely underestimate the fullness... more Researchers who document yoga's popularity in the United States likely underestimate the fullness of its impact if they do not include data from communities of color. In a search of over 200 published black women's memoirs, the term “yoga” appeared in 42 narratives. Sadie and Bessie Delany are sisters who both lived over 100 years; they credited four decades of daily yoga as a main variable in their longevity.[2] Personal writing by Ann Petry (1965), Maya Angelou (1976), and Jan Willis (1969, 1981) also shows historic awareness of several physical and spiritual traditions, including tantric yoga. African American women's accounts of yoga's perceived benefits can inform doctors, therapists, and researchers interested in addressing health issues particular to this demographic.
OASIS gathers culturally-informed soup recipes to expand nutritional knowledge and discussions of... more OASIS gathers culturally-informed soup recipes to expand nutritional knowledge and discussions of Black women’s wellness. In this sampler of stories, Dr. Stephanie Evans and the Oldways African Heritage & Health leadership team present personal vignettes and recipes that explore identity, geography, health, and self-care.
Memoirs are an effective way to convey both technical knowledge and cultural heritage. This book project brings together 20 cooks, chefs, researchers, storytellers, foodies, farmers, nutritionists, historians, activists, food bloggers, and wellness workers to share stories about Black women’s health.
Stories and soup recipes are featured from around the African diaspora: Nigeria, Eretria, Guyana, Brazil, Tobago, Barbados, Washington D.C., Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Boston, New York, and New Mexico.
Soup is a perfect meal that allows us to simmer down. So take time to share this bowl of wellness. Dish, wish, and reminisce in sisterhood and community. Enjoy this diaspora taster, get inspiration to record your own story. Find more resources online at ProfessorEvans.net and Oldways African Heritage & Health to define and expand your own personal wellness menu!
It is my pleasure to introduce the 2014 edition of the Phylon. This collection represents a Clark... more It is my pleasure to introduce the 2014 edition of the Phylon. This collection represents a Clark Atlanta University (CAU) campus-wide effort to appropriately recognize the legacy of Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois. There have been numerous CAU gatherings around Du Bois’ work, particularly in 1975 and in 2004, with several meetings in between. However, the magnitude of the 2012 year-long Major Works seminars and the 2013 international conference was fittingly noteworthy to mark the 50th anniversary of his passing and to duly extend the reach of Du Bois’ message globally. Du Bois’ timeless writing connects past and future....
TABLE of CONTENTS To order copies of Phylon, contact Dr. Sheila Flemming-Hunter shunter@cau.edu
Editor’s Comments: iii
Obie Clayton, Editor, Chair, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
President’s Comments: Carlton E. Brown, Clark Atlanta University President iv
Special Issue Editor’s Introduction: vi
Stephanie Y. Evans, Guest Editor, Chair, Department of African American Studies, Africana Women’s Studies and History
Managing Editor’s Introduction: Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Managing Editor viii
Du Boisian Ideas
Fractal Complexity of the Education of Black People: Ten Critiques, 1906-1960 1 Carley M. Shinault, Howard University
His Deep and Abiding Love: Du Bois, Gender Politics, and Black Studies 18 Nagueyalti Warren, Emory University
A Consideration of African American Christianity as a Manifestation 30 of Du Bosnian Double Consciousness Shirley Waters-White, Clark Atlanta University
Embracing Philosophy: On Du Bois' “The Individual and Social Conscience” 42 Robert W. Williams, Bennett College
Hypocrisy in the Life of W.E.B. Du Bois: Reconstructing Selective Memory 57 Bonnyeclaire Smith-Stewart, Clark Atlanta University
Du Bois and Historical Figures
The First Fissure: The Du Bois-Washington Relationship from 1898-1899 76 Thomas Aiello, Valdosta State University
The Transubstantiation of Andrew Johnson: White Epistemic Failure 88 in Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction Lisa J. McLeod, Guilford College
High Hope and Fixed Purpose: Frederick Douglass and the Talented 102
Tenth on the American Plantation La’Neice Littleton, Clark Atlanta University
Global Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois’ Search for Democracy in China: The Double Consciousness 115 of a Black Radical Democrat Bernard Bell, Pennsylvania State University
Reading Du Bois on East Africa: Epistemological Implications of Apartheid 128 Constructions of Knowledge Jesse Benjamin, Kennesaw State University
W.E.B. Bu Bois’ Transnationalism: Building a Collective Identity among 145 the American Negro and the Asian Indian Andrea Slater, University of California-Irvine
Methodological Matters in the Study of Africa: An Appreciation of 158 W.E.B. Du Bois’ Africanist Scholarship Hashim Gibrill, Clark Atlanta University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction:
"This Right to Grow": Higher Education as both a Human and C... more TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction:
"This Right to Grow": Higher Education as both a Human and Civil Right
Part One - Educational Attainment
1. "A Plea for the Oppressed": Educational Strivings, Pre-1865
2. "The Crown of Culture": Educational Attainment, 1865-1910
3. "Beating Onward, Ever Onward": A Critical Mass, 1910-54
4. "Reminiscences of School Life": Six College Memoirs
5. "I Make Myself Heard": Comparative Collegiate Experiences (HBCUs and PWIs)
6. "The Third Step": Doctoral Degrees
Part Two - Intellectual Legacy
7. Research: "The Yardstick of Great Thinkers"
8. Teaching: "That Which Relieves Their Hunger"
9. Service: "A Beneficent Force"
10. Living Legacies--Black Women in Higher Education, Post-1954
Black Women in the Ivory Tower chronicles Black women's struggle for access to higher education and presents historic philosophies of influential scholars. Part One, an educational history, begins in 1850, when Oberlin conferred the first college diploma upon Lucy Stanton and continues through the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. Part Two, an intellectual history, presents Black women's philosophies of higher education between Anna Cooper's 1892 A Voice from the South and Mary McLeod Bethune's 1955 "Last Will and Testament." This story reveals how Black women demanded space as students and asserted their voice as educators, contributing in significant ways to higher education in the United States.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface: Stephanie Y. Evans
Introduction: Colette Taylor
PART I : CO... more TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface: Stephanie Y. Evans
Introduction: Colette Taylor
PART I : COMMUNITY SERVICE, VOLUNTEERISM, & ENGAGEMENT
CS Introduction: AACE editors
Kheli R. WillettsThe Community Folk Art Center: A University and Community Creative Collaboration
Kendall M. Campbell A University's Commitment to the Health of an Underserved Community: Exploring Community Service for a Predominantly African-American Population
Joi Nathan African American College Students and Volunteerism: Attitudes Towards Mentoring at a Title I School
Jeff Brooks Pitfalls, Prejudice and Promise: Experiences in Community Service in an Historically Black College or University (HBCU)
PART II: COMMUNITY SERVICE-LEARNING
CSL Introduction: Michelle Dunlap
Lucy Mule Can the Village Educate the Prospective Teacher?: Reflections on Multicultural Service- Learning in African American Communities
August Hoffman, Richard Carifo, Eduardo Sanchez, & Julie Wallach Sowing Seeds of Success: Gardening as a Method of Increasing Academic Self-Efficacy and Retention among African American Students
Troy Harden The Liberator or the Sell Out: Issues of Identity, Place, and Praxis for a Black Man as a Service-Learning Educator in a Predominantly White Institution
Annemarie Vaccaro Racial Identity and the Ethics of Service Learning as Pedagogy
Meta Mendel-Reyes & Dwayne Mack We'll Understand it Better By and By": Three Dimensional Approach to Teaching Race Through Community Engagement
PART III: COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH
CBR Introduction: DeMond Miller
Fleda Mask Jackson Black Like Me: Community-Based Participatory Research with African American Women
Micah McCreary, Monica Jones, John Fife, & Raymond Tademy A Partnership between the African American Church and the University: IMPPACT and S.P.I.C.E.S
Olivia Washington and David Moxley“I Have Three Strikes Against Me”: Narratives of Plight and Efficacy among Older African American Homeless Women and Their Implications for Engaged Inquiry
Richard Briscoe, Harold Keller, Gwen McClain, Evangeline Best, & Jessica Mazza Implementing A Culturally Competent Community-Based Research Approach with African American Neighborhoods: Critical Components and Examples
GiShawn Mance, Bernadette Sanchez, & Niambi Jaha-Echols Community Engagement and Collaborations in Community-Based Research: The Road to Project Butterfly
Final Word: Donald Blake
African Americans and Community Engagement (AACE) discusses race and its roles in university-community partnerships. This edited volume allows students, agency staff, community constituents, faculty, and campus administrators an opportunity to reflect and redefine what impact African American identity--in the academy and in the community--has on various forms of community engagement. From historic concepts of "race uplift" to contemporary debates about racialized perceptions of need (seen in discussion of "urban" communities or service efforts with Hurricane Katrina survivors), African American identity plays a significant role. This volume offers a cogent platform from which to encourage the difficult (yet much-needed) inclusion of race in dialogues of national service and community engagement. Social change can happen more effectively through critically discussing assumptions, expectations, experiences, and perspectives that emerge when placing race at the center of town-gown communication and practice. The AACE chapters represent best practices, recommendations, personal insight, and informed warnings about building sustainable--and mutually beneficial--relationships.
This article argues for a broader understanding of scholarship by and about Afri- can women, reve... more This article argues for a broader understanding of scholarship by and about Afri- can women, revealing comprehensive data about gender on the continent that was gathered during a 2006 faculty exchange program at the University of Dar es Salaam. This information will advance black studies scholarship by engaging definitions of African-centered research and will advance understanding of the wide range
The Black Women’s Studies Booklist https://bwstbooklist.net/ is now online. This open access web ... more The Black Women’s Studies Booklist https://bwstbooklist.net/ is now online. This open access web resource is useful for research, citation, instruction, and advising for undergraduate or graduate student papers, theses, dissertations, and exams.
Black studies and women’s studies programs are beginning to commemorate 50th year anniversaries and the BWST Booklist is a timely assessment of extant scholarship. By thematically organizing a comprehensive set of over 1,400 foundational and new publications, this bibliography clarifies past, present, and forthcoming areas of research in a dynamic field.
I extend thanks to the dozens of project reviewers who helped ensure the most robust list of resources possible, especially Drs. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Patricia Bell-Scott, Bettina Aptheker; Rebecca Colesworthy of SUNY Pres; as well as Nneka Dennie and Jacinta Saffold of the newly formed Black Women’s Studies Association. Please share this resource with students and colleagues of all levels.
Creates a new framework for approaching Black women’s wellness, by merging theory and practice wi... more Creates a new framework for approaching Black women’s wellness, by merging theory and practice with both personal narratives and public policy.
This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look at the challenges and potency of Black women’s struggle for inner peace and mental stability. It brings together contributors from psychology, sociology, law, and medicine, as well as the humanities, to discuss issues ranging from stress, sexual assault, healing, self-care, and contemplative practice to health-policy considerations and parenting. Merging theory and practice with personal narratives and public policy, the book develops a new framework for approaching Black women’s wellness in order to provide tangible solutions. The collection reflects feminist praxis and defines womanist peace in terms that reject both “superwoman” stereotypes and “victim” caricatures. Also included for health professionals are concrete recommendations for understanding and treating Black women.
“…this book speaks not only to Black women but also educates a broader audience of policymakers and therapists about the complex and multilayered realities that we must navigate and the protests we must mount on our journey to find inner peace and optimal health.” — from the Foreword by Linda Goler Blount
Stephanie Y. Evans is Professor and Chair of African American Studies, Africana Women’s Studies, and History at Clark Atlanta University. She is the author of Black Passports: Travel Memoirs as a Tool for Youth Empowerment and the coeditor (with Colette M. Taylor, Michelle R. Dunlap, and DeMond S. Miller) of African Americans and Community Engagement in Higher Education: Community Service, Service-Learning, and Community-Based Research, both also published by SUNY Press. Kanika Bell is Associate Professor of Psychology at Clark Atlanta University. She is also a licensed psychologist and owner of A.T.L. Psychotherapy & Consulting Services. Nsenga K. Burton is Digital Editor of Grady Newsource at the University of Georgia, where she also teaches news writing and multi-platform production. She is the editor of The Burton Wire.
Researchers who document yoga's popularity in the United States likely underestimate the fullness... more Researchers who document yoga's popularity in the United States likely underestimate the fullness of its impact if they do not include data from communities of color. In a search of over 200 published black women's memoirs, the term “yoga” appeared in 42 narratives. Sadie and Bessie Delany are sisters who both lived over 100 years; they credited four decades of daily yoga as a main variable in their longevity.[2] Personal writing by Ann Petry (1965), Maya Angelou (1976), and Jan Willis (1969, 1981) also shows historic awareness of several physical and spiritual traditions, including tantric yoga. African American women's accounts of yoga's perceived benefits can inform doctors, therapists, and researchers interested in addressing health issues particular to this demographic.
OASIS gathers culturally-informed soup recipes to expand nutritional knowledge and discussions of... more OASIS gathers culturally-informed soup recipes to expand nutritional knowledge and discussions of Black women’s wellness. In this sampler of stories, Dr. Stephanie Evans and the Oldways African Heritage & Health leadership team present personal vignettes and recipes that explore identity, geography, health, and self-care.
Memoirs are an effective way to convey both technical knowledge and cultural heritage. This book project brings together 20 cooks, chefs, researchers, storytellers, foodies, farmers, nutritionists, historians, activists, food bloggers, and wellness workers to share stories about Black women’s health.
Stories and soup recipes are featured from around the African diaspora: Nigeria, Eretria, Guyana, Brazil, Tobago, Barbados, Washington D.C., Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Boston, New York, and New Mexico.
Soup is a perfect meal that allows us to simmer down. So take time to share this bowl of wellness. Dish, wish, and reminisce in sisterhood and community. Enjoy this diaspora taster, get inspiration to record your own story. Find more resources online at ProfessorEvans.net and Oldways African Heritage & Health to define and expand your own personal wellness menu!
It is my pleasure to introduce the 2014 edition of the Phylon. This collection represents a Clark... more It is my pleasure to introduce the 2014 edition of the Phylon. This collection represents a Clark Atlanta University (CAU) campus-wide effort to appropriately recognize the legacy of Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois. There have been numerous CAU gatherings around Du Bois’ work, particularly in 1975 and in 2004, with several meetings in between. However, the magnitude of the 2012 year-long Major Works seminars and the 2013 international conference was fittingly noteworthy to mark the 50th anniversary of his passing and to duly extend the reach of Du Bois’ message globally. Du Bois’ timeless writing connects past and future....
TABLE of CONTENTS To order copies of Phylon, contact Dr. Sheila Flemming-Hunter shunter@cau.edu
Editor’s Comments: iii
Obie Clayton, Editor, Chair, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
President’s Comments: Carlton E. Brown, Clark Atlanta University President iv
Special Issue Editor’s Introduction: vi
Stephanie Y. Evans, Guest Editor, Chair, Department of African American Studies, Africana Women’s Studies and History
Managing Editor’s Introduction: Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Managing Editor viii
Du Boisian Ideas
Fractal Complexity of the Education of Black People: Ten Critiques, 1906-1960 1 Carley M. Shinault, Howard University
His Deep and Abiding Love: Du Bois, Gender Politics, and Black Studies 18 Nagueyalti Warren, Emory University
A Consideration of African American Christianity as a Manifestation 30 of Du Bosnian Double Consciousness Shirley Waters-White, Clark Atlanta University
Embracing Philosophy: On Du Bois' “The Individual and Social Conscience” 42 Robert W. Williams, Bennett College
Hypocrisy in the Life of W.E.B. Du Bois: Reconstructing Selective Memory 57 Bonnyeclaire Smith-Stewart, Clark Atlanta University
Du Bois and Historical Figures
The First Fissure: The Du Bois-Washington Relationship from 1898-1899 76 Thomas Aiello, Valdosta State University
The Transubstantiation of Andrew Johnson: White Epistemic Failure 88 in Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction Lisa J. McLeod, Guilford College
High Hope and Fixed Purpose: Frederick Douglass and the Talented 102
Tenth on the American Plantation La’Neice Littleton, Clark Atlanta University
Global Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois’ Search for Democracy in China: The Double Consciousness 115 of a Black Radical Democrat Bernard Bell, Pennsylvania State University
Reading Du Bois on East Africa: Epistemological Implications of Apartheid 128 Constructions of Knowledge Jesse Benjamin, Kennesaw State University
W.E.B. Bu Bois’ Transnationalism: Building a Collective Identity among 145 the American Negro and the Asian Indian Andrea Slater, University of California-Irvine
Methodological Matters in the Study of Africa: An Appreciation of 158 W.E.B. Du Bois’ Africanist Scholarship Hashim Gibrill, Clark Atlanta University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction:
"This Right to Grow": Higher Education as both a Human and C... more TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction:
"This Right to Grow": Higher Education as both a Human and Civil Right
Part One - Educational Attainment
1. "A Plea for the Oppressed": Educational Strivings, Pre-1865
2. "The Crown of Culture": Educational Attainment, 1865-1910
3. "Beating Onward, Ever Onward": A Critical Mass, 1910-54
4. "Reminiscences of School Life": Six College Memoirs
5. "I Make Myself Heard": Comparative Collegiate Experiences (HBCUs and PWIs)
6. "The Third Step": Doctoral Degrees
Part Two - Intellectual Legacy
7. Research: "The Yardstick of Great Thinkers"
8. Teaching: "That Which Relieves Their Hunger"
9. Service: "A Beneficent Force"
10. Living Legacies--Black Women in Higher Education, Post-1954
Black Women in the Ivory Tower chronicles Black women's struggle for access to higher education and presents historic philosophies of influential scholars. Part One, an educational history, begins in 1850, when Oberlin conferred the first college diploma upon Lucy Stanton and continues through the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. Part Two, an intellectual history, presents Black women's philosophies of higher education between Anna Cooper's 1892 A Voice from the South and Mary McLeod Bethune's 1955 "Last Will and Testament." This story reveals how Black women demanded space as students and asserted their voice as educators, contributing in significant ways to higher education in the United States.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface: Stephanie Y. Evans
Introduction: Colette Taylor
PART I : CO... more TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface: Stephanie Y. Evans
Introduction: Colette Taylor
PART I : COMMUNITY SERVICE, VOLUNTEERISM, & ENGAGEMENT
CS Introduction: AACE editors
Kheli R. WillettsThe Community Folk Art Center: A University and Community Creative Collaboration
Kendall M. Campbell A University's Commitment to the Health of an Underserved Community: Exploring Community Service for a Predominantly African-American Population
Joi Nathan African American College Students and Volunteerism: Attitudes Towards Mentoring at a Title I School
Jeff Brooks Pitfalls, Prejudice and Promise: Experiences in Community Service in an Historically Black College or University (HBCU)
PART II: COMMUNITY SERVICE-LEARNING
CSL Introduction: Michelle Dunlap
Lucy Mule Can the Village Educate the Prospective Teacher?: Reflections on Multicultural Service- Learning in African American Communities
August Hoffman, Richard Carifo, Eduardo Sanchez, & Julie Wallach Sowing Seeds of Success: Gardening as a Method of Increasing Academic Self-Efficacy and Retention among African American Students
Troy Harden The Liberator or the Sell Out: Issues of Identity, Place, and Praxis for a Black Man as a Service-Learning Educator in a Predominantly White Institution
Annemarie Vaccaro Racial Identity and the Ethics of Service Learning as Pedagogy
Meta Mendel-Reyes & Dwayne Mack We'll Understand it Better By and By": Three Dimensional Approach to Teaching Race Through Community Engagement
PART III: COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH
CBR Introduction: DeMond Miller
Fleda Mask Jackson Black Like Me: Community-Based Participatory Research with African American Women
Micah McCreary, Monica Jones, John Fife, & Raymond Tademy A Partnership between the African American Church and the University: IMPPACT and S.P.I.C.E.S
Olivia Washington and David Moxley“I Have Three Strikes Against Me”: Narratives of Plight and Efficacy among Older African American Homeless Women and Their Implications for Engaged Inquiry
Richard Briscoe, Harold Keller, Gwen McClain, Evangeline Best, & Jessica Mazza Implementing A Culturally Competent Community-Based Research Approach with African American Neighborhoods: Critical Components and Examples
GiShawn Mance, Bernadette Sanchez, & Niambi Jaha-Echols Community Engagement and Collaborations in Community-Based Research: The Road to Project Butterfly
Final Word: Donald Blake
African Americans and Community Engagement (AACE) discusses race and its roles in university-community partnerships. This edited volume allows students, agency staff, community constituents, faculty, and campus administrators an opportunity to reflect and redefine what impact African American identity--in the academy and in the community--has on various forms of community engagement. From historic concepts of "race uplift" to contemporary debates about racialized perceptions of need (seen in discussion of "urban" communities or service efforts with Hurricane Katrina survivors), African American identity plays a significant role. This volume offers a cogent platform from which to encourage the difficult (yet much-needed) inclusion of race in dialogues of national service and community engagement. Social change can happen more effectively through critically discussing assumptions, expectations, experiences, and perspectives that emerge when placing race at the center of town-gown communication and practice. The AACE chapters represent best practices, recommendations, personal insight, and informed warnings about building sustainable--and mutually beneficial--relationships.
This article argues for a broader understanding of scholarship by and about Afri- can women, reve... more This article argues for a broader understanding of scholarship by and about Afri- can women, revealing comprehensive data about gender on the continent that was gathered during a 2006 faculty exchange program at the University of Dar es Salaam. This information will advance black studies scholarship by engaging definitions of African-centered research and will advance understanding of the wide range
This article presents Mary McLeod Bethune's educational philosophy and demonstrates the signi... more This article presents Mary McLeod Bethune's educational philosophy and demonstrates the signi fi cance of historic ideas to contemporary research agendas. Bethune is usually recognized as an administrator or political fi gure; in this article, the author situates her as a scholar with clear and applicable ideas about educational research. Bethune's work suggests that scholars should produce research with four
... Finally I thank my daughters, Darci, Sophie, and Elise, who make each of my days special, and... more ... Finally I thank my daughters, Darci, Sophie, and Elise, who make each of my days special, and my husband, Don, whose unwavering love and support make it all possible. Page 12. Southern Women at the Seven Sister Colleges Page 13. Page 14. ...
VIDEO DESCRIPTION
“Investing in the Legacy: Living Narratives of University of Florida’s Black A... more VIDEO DESCRIPTION
“Investing in the Legacy: Living Narratives of University of Florida’s Black Alumni”
34 minutes
At the 2009 Black Alumni Weekend Welcome Reception, Dr. Stephanie Evans discussed the importance of oral history to educational institutions and to Black communities. She highlighted published and online resources on Black history at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, and in the state of Florida—especially the Sam Proctor Oral History Program http://www.history.ufl.edu/oral/, UF Special Collections http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/default.htm, and the African American Studies Program http://www.clas.ufl.edu/afam/. The lecture ends with a facilitated small group discussion about past experiences of UF African American Alumni. Handout and resource links available at www.professorevans.com.
INVITED LECTURES
2009 "Assessing Graduate Training in Africana Studies: Creating Community as ... more INVITED LECTURES
2009 "Assessing Graduate Training in Africana Studies: Creating Community as the Interdiscipline Expands." Forty Years at Vassar College: Africana Identities in the Diaspora, 40th Anniversary Commemorative Conference. Poughkeepsie, NY. April 17-19.
2008 “Soweto Gospel Choir ." Phillips Performing Arts Center. Gainesville, FL. November 28.
2008 "The History & Impact of Black Women in Higher Education: Reflecting on Intellectual History." Association of Black Women in Higher Education. Princeton University. October 10.
2008 "The Life and Legacy of Fanny Jackson Coppin." Annual Convocation Lecture. Coppin State University. September 26.
2008 “Cultural Identity and Community Engagement: Service, Partnership, or Community Building?" Annual Service Convocation Lecture. Berea College, KY. May 1.
2008 “Race, Gender, and Public Higher Education in Florida. Matheson Museum. Gainesville, FL. April 22.
2008 “Coalition Music: Reflections of Sweet Honey in the Rock ." Phillips Performing Arts Center. Gainesville, FL. February 15.
2008 “Race and Gender in Higher Education--The Power of Diversity." Sieman's Power Generation Company. Orlando, FL. February 15.
2008 “Phenomenal Women in Higher Education." Black History Month Program. Colorado State University, CO. February 8.
2008 “Un-covering the College Achievement Gap ." Education Writers Association Regional Seminar. Tennessean Newspaper/Vanderbilt University. Nashville, TN. February 1.
2007 "Black Women in the Ivory Tower: Cultural Identity and Early Doctoral Dissertations."
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign African American Studies and Research
Program & History Department. Urbana, IL. March 29.
2004 "Fire as the Muse: Black Women's Educational Attainment and Intellectual Legacy in Higher Education." Peanut Butter and Gender Lecture Series. Center for Excellence in Learning Through Service, Women’s Studies, and African American Studies co-sponsors. Also gave four guest lectures to Political Science, Women’s Studies, Literature, and Black Studies classes. Berea College, KY. November 10-12.
2002 “Black Women as Educational Leaders: A History of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement.” Colloquium and Diversity Seminar. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. November 30.
2002 “Black Women as Educational Leaders: Models for Dissolution of ‘Town / Gown’ Divisions in Community Development Work.” Curriculum Development Seminar Lecture Series: “Addressing Diversity Issues in City and Regional Planning.” Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. November 29.
2002 **"Living Legacies: Black Women, Education, and Public Service. An historical analysis of the presence, oppression, contribution, and creative resistance of Black women in American education." "The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society Presents" - Lecture Series. Co-Sponsored by Brown University's Sarah Doyle Women's Center, Africana Studies, and the Swearer Center for Public Service. Rhode Island Foundation. Providence, RI. November 12.
NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
** = invited
2009 "IJAS Editor Session: Africana Studies at the Graduate Level: A Twenty-First Century Perspective." National Council for Black Studies (NCBS). Atlanta, GA. March 19-21.
2008 ** "Women of Color in Academia" panelist and "Balancing Academic Substance with Polished Presentation, or The Finer Pointsof Shameless Self-Promotion", workshop presenter. SREB - Compact for Faculty Diversity. Institute on Teaching and Mentoring. Tampa, FL. October 26-26.
2008 "World House at Morehouse" Live webcast from Morehouse College, University of Florida, India, China, Kenya, and South Africa. Commemorating the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. April 4.
2008 Panel Moderator, "The Future of U.S. Intellectual History: Challenges and Possibilities." OAH. New York City. March 29.
2008 "Swellings in the Sable Sea and Ivory Tower: Applying African American Female Intellectual History to Contemporary Academe." Panelist. "Creating Equilibrium in the Compost Heap: The Contributions of African American Women in U.S. Academies and Society." AERA. New York City. March 25.
2008 ** "Preparing Future Faculty ." Plenary Presentation/ Workshop. National Black Graduate Student Association. Chicago, IL. March 15.
2007 "Anna Julia Cooper in Context: Black women's (Inter)national Academic Identities." University of Paris, Sorbonne. France. March 14.
2007 "Black Women in the Ivory Tower: An Argument for Recognizing an Intellectual Democracy." ABWH: Three New Books in Black Intellectual History: A Discussion of Convergence and Divergence in Academic Lives. Panel with Layli Phillips and Francille Wilson. Comment by Robert Pratt and Lee Jones. October 4.
2007 **"Balancing Academic Substance with Polished Presentation, or The Finer Points
of Shameless Self-Promotion." SREB - Compact for Faculty Diversity. Institute on Teaching and Mentoring. Arlington, VA. October 27.
2007 **"Historical Sisters of the Academy : Using History as a Research and Publishing Tool." Panel presentation and mentoring workshops. Sisters of the Academy Boot Camp. Auburn University, Alabama. August 9-12.
2007 **"Applied Black Studies: Research and Teaching connected to Service." Keynote
address. Temple University, Department of African American Studies, Annual Graduate
Student Spring Conference. "Reconnecting Africana Studies and Community Agency:
Integrating Community, Self, and Scholarship. Philadelphia, PA. April 13-15.
2007 "Comparative Research Collaborations at African and European Partnerships: Tanzania
versus Paris." on panel The World Wide Web: Scholars Unite Through the Power of the Pen and Internet. American Education Research Association. Chicago, IL. April 9-13. Paper
accepted, unable to attend.
2007 "Black Women in the Ivory Tower: Cultural Identity and Intellectual Production in Early
Doctoral Dissertations." panel "Whose American Values? Black, White, Jewish,
Protestant, Male or Female?" OAH Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN. March 29-April 1.
Paper accepted, unable to attend.
2006 "Anna Julia Cooper's Personal and Academic (Inter)national Identity" for panel "A Usable Past and the Transnational Turn: Conflict or Congruence?" American Studies Association, Oakland, CA. October 14.
Paper read at panel.
2006 "The State and Future of the Ph.D. in Black Studies: Six Institutional Perspectives." Panel organizer and chair. Association for the Study of African Life and History Conference. Atlanta, GA. September 27-October 1.
In Fall 2005, Dr. Evans conducted a survey of the graduate coordinators at Temple, UMass, Berkeley, Michigan State, Harvard, and Northwestern to inquire about the history and state of doctoral programs in Black Studies. She asked quantitative questions about the makeup of the graduate populations and qualitative questions about the comprehensive examination. The results were published in an article titled "The State and Future of the PhD in Black Studies: Assessing the Role of the Comprehensive Examination" appearing in the Southern Conference on African American Studies' GRIOT (May 2006).
On this panel, department chairs of the programs discussed program origins, where they are at, and where graduate training is going. Over 150 people have earned a Ph.D. in Black Studies and there were about 75 enrolled in 2006--the numbers are increasing. With more programs developing on the horizon, questions emerge about the state of graduate training in Black Studies, especially in light of the fact that no doctoral program in Black Studies yet exists in the South.
2006 "From Dissertation to Book: A Panel for Junior Scholars." Panel organizer and chair. Association for the Study of African Life and History Conference. Atlanta, GA. September 27-October 1.
2005 "We Note with Much Alarm the Evident Retrogression in This Land": Young Black Scholars and Current Crisis in America. 90th Annual Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference. Buffalo, New York. October 5-9.
2005 ** "'This Right to Grow': African American Women's Intellectual Legacy " in "Intellectual History: Pedagogy of a Usable Past" colloquium. Third International Conference on New Directions in Humanities.Competitive panel submission to "History and Theory" List. University of Cambridge, England. August 2-5.
2005 **"Cultural Identity and Community Service-Learning Course Construction." Bonner Foundation Conference. Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). Meeting for Civic Engagement Certificate Program. Bonner Foundation, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. January. (Attendee)
2004 "A History of Black Women's Quest for Higher Educational Attainment" on panel, "Women of Color in Higher Education: Past, Present, and Future Scholars." Panel proposal co-editor. American Educational Research Association annual meeting. San Diego, CA. April 12 - 16.
2003 "Living Legacies: Recognizing Black Women's Intellectual Contributions to Philosophies of Experiential Education," on panel "The Theory, Practice, and Politics of Black Women in Higher Education, 1865-1965." 88th Annual Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference.$500.00 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Travel Grant awarded. Milwaukee, WI. September 23 - 38.
2003 “Fostering Positive Relationships in a Hostile Environment: Blacks and Latinas - Bad Women Doing Good Work.” on panel, “Latina’s on the Move: Sisters in the Academy.” Brown at Brown: The 1st Annual New England Latino Leadership Conference. Brown University. Providence, RI. February 22.
2002 “Black Women as Theoretical Foremothers of Community, Service, and Learning” on panel, “Feminist Response to the Service Learning Movement.” The Pew Charitable Trusts Campus Compact National Summit: “Realizing the Civic Mission of Higher Education.” Providence, RI. November 7 - 9.
2002 Harvard Hip Hop Archive / Community Activism and Education Roundtable. Cambridge, MA. Invited attendee. September 28.
2002 **"Service-Learning Opportunities at HBCUs" on panel, "The Historical Imperative of Black Institutions and Its Importance to the Civic Engagement Movement in Higher Education" sponsored by National Campus Compact. 8th National HBCU Faculty Development Network Symposium. Norfolk, VA. October 17 - 21.
2002 "Presence, Oppression, Contribution, and Creative Resistance in Black Women's Historical Educational Experiences" on panel, "Black Women and Education: An Historical Overview." 87th Annual Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference.Orlando, FL. October 2 - 6.
2001 National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) Annual Conference Attendee. Washington, D.C.
2000 Colloquia participant as National Campus Compact Emerging Scholar. Campus Compact Colloquia on Community Based Learning and Civic Engagement for Women’s Colleges. Whispering Pines. West Greenwich, RI. November 8 - 10.
2000 "African American Educational Leaders and Community Engagement" (poster) 6th Annual Invisible College National Gathering for Service-learning Educators. "Bridging the Gap: Service Learning to Social Justice" (Invisible College now known as Educators for Community Engagement). Georgetown University. Washington D.C. June 22 - 24.
2000 "Speaking from Experience: Cultural Identity on and off Campus" on panel, "Service-Learning: Principles and Practices in a Multicultural Setting" American Association of Higher Education National Conference "To Form a More Perfect Union: Diversity and Learning" Anaheim, CA. March 29 - April 2.
1999 "Activism: The Fundamental Link Between Women's Studies and Service Learning." 20th National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM. June 17-20.
1998 "How Solid is the Rock?: Gauging the Historical Accuracy of Schoolhouse Rock" on panel "New Scholars for the New Century: Student Debut Papers on African Americans and the Media." 84th National Communication Association Annual Convention. New York, NY. November 21-24.
1998 National Organization for Women National Conference / Seneca Falls' 150th Anniversary Celebration Rochester, NY. Sponsored attendee, signer of the 1998 NOW Declaration of Sentiments. July 10-19.
1998 "A Cultural Framework for the Study of Sport History and Brazil" panel. VI Congresso Brasileiro De Historia Do Esporte, Lazer E Educacao Fisica. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. December.
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Black studies and women’s studies programs are beginning to commemorate 50th year anniversaries and the BWST Booklist is a timely assessment of extant scholarship. By thematically organizing a comprehensive set of over 1,400 foundational and new publications, this bibliography clarifies past, present, and forthcoming areas of research in a dynamic field.
I extend thanks to the dozens of project reviewers who helped ensure the most robust list of resources possible, especially Drs. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Patricia Bell-Scott, Bettina Aptheker; Rebecca Colesworthy of SUNY Pres; as well as Nneka Dennie and Jacinta Saffold of the newly formed Black Women’s Studies Association. Please share this resource with students and colleagues of all levels.
This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look at the challenges and potency of Black women’s struggle for inner peace and mental stability. It brings together contributors from psychology, sociology, law, and medicine, as well as the humanities, to discuss issues ranging from stress, sexual assault, healing, self-care, and contemplative practice to health-policy considerations and parenting. Merging theory and practice with personal narratives and public policy, the book develops a new framework for approaching Black women’s wellness in order to provide tangible solutions. The collection reflects feminist praxis and defines womanist peace in terms that reject both “superwoman” stereotypes and “victim” caricatures. Also included for health professionals are concrete recommendations for understanding and treating Black women.
“…this book speaks not only to Black women but also educates a broader audience of policymakers and therapists about the complex and multilayered realities that we must navigate and the protests we must mount on our journey to find inner peace and optimal health.” — from the Foreword by Linda Goler Blount
Stephanie Y. Evans is Professor and Chair of African American Studies, Africana Women’s Studies, and History at Clark Atlanta University. She is the author of Black Passports: Travel Memoirs as a Tool for Youth Empowerment and the coeditor (with Colette M. Taylor, Michelle R. Dunlap, and DeMond S. Miller) of African Americans and Community Engagement in Higher Education: Community Service, Service-Learning, and Community-Based Research, both also published by SUNY Press. Kanika Bell is Associate Professor of Psychology at Clark Atlanta University. She is also a licensed psychologist and owner of A.T.L. Psychotherapy & Consulting Services. Nsenga K. Burton is Digital Editor of Grady Newsource at the University of Georgia, where she also teaches news writing and multi-platform production. She is the editor of The Burton Wire.
Memoirs are an effective way to convey both technical knowledge and cultural heritage. This book project brings together 20 cooks, chefs, researchers, storytellers, foodies, farmers, nutritionists, historians, activists, food bloggers, and wellness workers to share stories about Black women’s health.
Stories and soup recipes are featured from around the African diaspora:
Nigeria, Eretria, Guyana, Brazil, Tobago, Barbados, Washington D.C., Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Boston,
New York, and New Mexico.
Soup is a perfect meal that allows us to simmer down. So take time to share this bowl of wellness. Dish, wish, and reminisce in sisterhood and community. Enjoy this diaspora taster, get inspiration to record your own story. Find more resources online at ProfessorEvans.net and Oldways African Heritage & Health to define and expand your own personal wellness menu!
TABLE of CONTENTS
To order copies of Phylon, contact Dr. Sheila Flemming-Hunter
shunter@cau.edu
Editor’s Comments: iii
Obie Clayton, Editor, Chair, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
President’s Comments: Carlton E. Brown, Clark Atlanta University President iv
Special Issue Editor’s Introduction: vi
Stephanie Y. Evans, Guest Editor, Chair, Department of African American Studies, Africana Women’s Studies and History
Managing Editor’s Introduction: Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Managing Editor viii
Du Boisian Ideas
Fractal Complexity of the Education of Black People: Ten Critiques, 1906-1960 1
Carley M. Shinault, Howard University
His Deep and Abiding Love: Du Bois, Gender Politics, and Black Studies 18
Nagueyalti Warren, Emory University
A Consideration of African American Christianity as a Manifestation 30
of Du Bosnian Double Consciousness
Shirley Waters-White, Clark Atlanta University
Embracing Philosophy: On Du Bois' “The Individual and Social Conscience” 42
Robert W. Williams, Bennett College
Hypocrisy in the Life of W.E.B. Du Bois: Reconstructing Selective Memory 57
Bonnyeclaire Smith-Stewart, Clark Atlanta University
Du Bois and Historical Figures
The First Fissure: The Du Bois-Washington Relationship from 1898-1899 76
Thomas Aiello, Valdosta State University
The Transubstantiation of Andrew Johnson: White Epistemic Failure 88
in Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction
Lisa J. McLeod, Guilford College
High Hope and Fixed Purpose: Frederick Douglass and the Talented 102
Tenth on the American Plantation
La’Neice Littleton, Clark Atlanta University
Global Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois’ Search for Democracy in China: The Double Consciousness 115
of a Black Radical Democrat
Bernard Bell, Pennsylvania State University
Reading Du Bois on East Africa: Epistemological Implications of Apartheid 128
Constructions of Knowledge
Jesse Benjamin, Kennesaw State University
W.E.B. Bu Bois’ Transnationalism: Building a Collective Identity among 145
the American Negro and the Asian Indian
Andrea Slater, University of California-Irvine
Methodological Matters in the Study of Africa: An Appreciation of 158
W.E.B. Du Bois’ Africanist Scholarship
Hashim Gibrill, Clark Atlanta University
Introduction:
"This Right to Grow": Higher Education as both a Human and Civil Right
Part One - Educational Attainment
1. "A Plea for the Oppressed": Educational Strivings, Pre-1865
2. "The Crown of Culture": Educational Attainment, 1865-1910
3. "Beating Onward, Ever Onward": A Critical Mass, 1910-54
4. "Reminiscences of School Life": Six College Memoirs
5. "I Make Myself Heard": Comparative Collegiate Experiences (HBCUs and PWIs)
6. "The Third Step": Doctoral Degrees
Part Two - Intellectual Legacy
7. Research: "The Yardstick of Great Thinkers"
8. Teaching: "That Which Relieves Their Hunger"
9. Service: "A Beneficent Force"
10. Living Legacies--Black Women in Higher Education, Post-1954
Black Women in the Ivory Tower chronicles Black women's struggle for access to higher education and presents historic philosophies of influential scholars. Part One, an educational history, begins in 1850, when Oberlin conferred the first college diploma upon Lucy Stanton and continues through the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. Part Two, an intellectual history, presents Black women's philosophies of higher education between Anna Cooper's 1892 A Voice from the South and Mary McLeod Bethune's 1955 "Last Will and Testament." This story reveals how Black women demanded space as students and asserted their voice as educators, contributing in significant ways to higher education in the United States.
Preface: Stephanie Y. Evans
Introduction: Colette Taylor
PART I : COMMUNITY SERVICE, VOLUNTEERISM, & ENGAGEMENT
CS Introduction: AACE editors
Kheli R. WillettsThe Community Folk Art Center: A University and Community Creative Collaboration
Kendall M. Campbell A University's Commitment to the Health of an Underserved Community: Exploring Community Service for a Predominantly African-American Population
Joi Nathan African American College Students and Volunteerism: Attitudes Towards Mentoring at a Title I School
Jeff Brooks Pitfalls, Prejudice and Promise: Experiences in Community Service in an Historically Black College or University (HBCU)
PART II: COMMUNITY SERVICE-LEARNING
CSL Introduction: Michelle Dunlap
Lucy Mule Can the Village Educate the Prospective Teacher?: Reflections on Multicultural Service- Learning in African American Communities
August Hoffman, Richard Carifo, Eduardo Sanchez, & Julie Wallach Sowing Seeds of Success: Gardening as a Method of Increasing Academic Self-Efficacy and Retention among African American Students
Troy Harden The Liberator or the Sell Out: Issues of Identity, Place, and Praxis for a Black Man as a Service-Learning Educator in a Predominantly White Institution
Annemarie Vaccaro Racial Identity and the Ethics of Service Learning as Pedagogy
Meta Mendel-Reyes & Dwayne Mack We'll Understand it Better By and By": Three Dimensional Approach to Teaching Race Through Community Engagement
PART III: COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH
CBR Introduction: DeMond Miller
Fleda Mask Jackson Black Like Me: Community-Based Participatory Research with African American Women
Micah McCreary, Monica Jones, John Fife, & Raymond Tademy A Partnership between the African American Church and the University: IMPPACT and S.P.I.C.E.S
Olivia Washington and David Moxley“I Have Three Strikes Against Me”: Narratives of Plight and Efficacy among Older African American Homeless Women and Their Implications for Engaged Inquiry
Richard Briscoe, Harold Keller, Gwen McClain, Evangeline Best, & Jessica Mazza Implementing A Culturally Competent Community-Based Research Approach with African American Neighborhoods: Critical Components and Examples
GiShawn Mance, Bernadette Sanchez, & Niambi Jaha-Echols Community Engagement and Collaborations in Community-Based Research: The Road to Project Butterfly
Final Word: Donald Blake
African Americans and Community Engagement (AACE) discusses race and its roles in university-community partnerships. This edited volume allows students, agency staff, community constituents, faculty, and campus administrators an opportunity to reflect and redefine what impact African American identity--in the academy and in the community--has on various forms of community engagement. From historic concepts of "race uplift" to contemporary debates about racialized perceptions of need (seen in discussion of "urban" communities or service efforts with Hurricane Katrina survivors), African American identity plays a significant role. This volume offers a cogent platform from which to encourage the difficult (yet much-needed) inclusion of race in dialogues of national service and community engagement. Social change can happen more effectively through critically discussing assumptions, expectations, experiences, and perspectives that emerge when placing race at the center of town-gown communication and practice. The AACE chapters represent best practices, recommendations, personal insight, and informed warnings about building sustainable--and mutually beneficial--relationships.
Black studies and women’s studies programs are beginning to commemorate 50th year anniversaries and the BWST Booklist is a timely assessment of extant scholarship. By thematically organizing a comprehensive set of over 1,400 foundational and new publications, this bibliography clarifies past, present, and forthcoming areas of research in a dynamic field.
I extend thanks to the dozens of project reviewers who helped ensure the most robust list of resources possible, especially Drs. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Patricia Bell-Scott, Bettina Aptheker; Rebecca Colesworthy of SUNY Pres; as well as Nneka Dennie and Jacinta Saffold of the newly formed Black Women’s Studies Association. Please share this resource with students and colleagues of all levels.
This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look at the challenges and potency of Black women’s struggle for inner peace and mental stability. It brings together contributors from psychology, sociology, law, and medicine, as well as the humanities, to discuss issues ranging from stress, sexual assault, healing, self-care, and contemplative practice to health-policy considerations and parenting. Merging theory and practice with personal narratives and public policy, the book develops a new framework for approaching Black women’s wellness in order to provide tangible solutions. The collection reflects feminist praxis and defines womanist peace in terms that reject both “superwoman” stereotypes and “victim” caricatures. Also included for health professionals are concrete recommendations for understanding and treating Black women.
“…this book speaks not only to Black women but also educates a broader audience of policymakers and therapists about the complex and multilayered realities that we must navigate and the protests we must mount on our journey to find inner peace and optimal health.” — from the Foreword by Linda Goler Blount
Stephanie Y. Evans is Professor and Chair of African American Studies, Africana Women’s Studies, and History at Clark Atlanta University. She is the author of Black Passports: Travel Memoirs as a Tool for Youth Empowerment and the coeditor (with Colette M. Taylor, Michelle R. Dunlap, and DeMond S. Miller) of African Americans and Community Engagement in Higher Education: Community Service, Service-Learning, and Community-Based Research, both also published by SUNY Press. Kanika Bell is Associate Professor of Psychology at Clark Atlanta University. She is also a licensed psychologist and owner of A.T.L. Psychotherapy & Consulting Services. Nsenga K. Burton is Digital Editor of Grady Newsource at the University of Georgia, where she also teaches news writing and multi-platform production. She is the editor of The Burton Wire.
Memoirs are an effective way to convey both technical knowledge and cultural heritage. This book project brings together 20 cooks, chefs, researchers, storytellers, foodies, farmers, nutritionists, historians, activists, food bloggers, and wellness workers to share stories about Black women’s health.
Stories and soup recipes are featured from around the African diaspora:
Nigeria, Eretria, Guyana, Brazil, Tobago, Barbados, Washington D.C., Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Boston,
New York, and New Mexico.
Soup is a perfect meal that allows us to simmer down. So take time to share this bowl of wellness. Dish, wish, and reminisce in sisterhood and community. Enjoy this diaspora taster, get inspiration to record your own story. Find more resources online at ProfessorEvans.net and Oldways African Heritage & Health to define and expand your own personal wellness menu!
TABLE of CONTENTS
To order copies of Phylon, contact Dr. Sheila Flemming-Hunter
shunter@cau.edu
Editor’s Comments: iii
Obie Clayton, Editor, Chair, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
President’s Comments: Carlton E. Brown, Clark Atlanta University President iv
Special Issue Editor’s Introduction: vi
Stephanie Y. Evans, Guest Editor, Chair, Department of African American Studies, Africana Women’s Studies and History
Managing Editor’s Introduction: Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Managing Editor viii
Du Boisian Ideas
Fractal Complexity of the Education of Black People: Ten Critiques, 1906-1960 1
Carley M. Shinault, Howard University
His Deep and Abiding Love: Du Bois, Gender Politics, and Black Studies 18
Nagueyalti Warren, Emory University
A Consideration of African American Christianity as a Manifestation 30
of Du Bosnian Double Consciousness
Shirley Waters-White, Clark Atlanta University
Embracing Philosophy: On Du Bois' “The Individual and Social Conscience” 42
Robert W. Williams, Bennett College
Hypocrisy in the Life of W.E.B. Du Bois: Reconstructing Selective Memory 57
Bonnyeclaire Smith-Stewart, Clark Atlanta University
Du Bois and Historical Figures
The First Fissure: The Du Bois-Washington Relationship from 1898-1899 76
Thomas Aiello, Valdosta State University
The Transubstantiation of Andrew Johnson: White Epistemic Failure 88
in Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction
Lisa J. McLeod, Guilford College
High Hope and Fixed Purpose: Frederick Douglass and the Talented 102
Tenth on the American Plantation
La’Neice Littleton, Clark Atlanta University
Global Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois’ Search for Democracy in China: The Double Consciousness 115
of a Black Radical Democrat
Bernard Bell, Pennsylvania State University
Reading Du Bois on East Africa: Epistemological Implications of Apartheid 128
Constructions of Knowledge
Jesse Benjamin, Kennesaw State University
W.E.B. Bu Bois’ Transnationalism: Building a Collective Identity among 145
the American Negro and the Asian Indian
Andrea Slater, University of California-Irvine
Methodological Matters in the Study of Africa: An Appreciation of 158
W.E.B. Du Bois’ Africanist Scholarship
Hashim Gibrill, Clark Atlanta University
Introduction:
"This Right to Grow": Higher Education as both a Human and Civil Right
Part One - Educational Attainment
1. "A Plea for the Oppressed": Educational Strivings, Pre-1865
2. "The Crown of Culture": Educational Attainment, 1865-1910
3. "Beating Onward, Ever Onward": A Critical Mass, 1910-54
4. "Reminiscences of School Life": Six College Memoirs
5. "I Make Myself Heard": Comparative Collegiate Experiences (HBCUs and PWIs)
6. "The Third Step": Doctoral Degrees
Part Two - Intellectual Legacy
7. Research: "The Yardstick of Great Thinkers"
8. Teaching: "That Which Relieves Their Hunger"
9. Service: "A Beneficent Force"
10. Living Legacies--Black Women in Higher Education, Post-1954
Black Women in the Ivory Tower chronicles Black women's struggle for access to higher education and presents historic philosophies of influential scholars. Part One, an educational history, begins in 1850, when Oberlin conferred the first college diploma upon Lucy Stanton and continues through the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. Part Two, an intellectual history, presents Black women's philosophies of higher education between Anna Cooper's 1892 A Voice from the South and Mary McLeod Bethune's 1955 "Last Will and Testament." This story reveals how Black women demanded space as students and asserted their voice as educators, contributing in significant ways to higher education in the United States.
Preface: Stephanie Y. Evans
Introduction: Colette Taylor
PART I : COMMUNITY SERVICE, VOLUNTEERISM, & ENGAGEMENT
CS Introduction: AACE editors
Kheli R. WillettsThe Community Folk Art Center: A University and Community Creative Collaboration
Kendall M. Campbell A University's Commitment to the Health of an Underserved Community: Exploring Community Service for a Predominantly African-American Population
Joi Nathan African American College Students and Volunteerism: Attitudes Towards Mentoring at a Title I School
Jeff Brooks Pitfalls, Prejudice and Promise: Experiences in Community Service in an Historically Black College or University (HBCU)
PART II: COMMUNITY SERVICE-LEARNING
CSL Introduction: Michelle Dunlap
Lucy Mule Can the Village Educate the Prospective Teacher?: Reflections on Multicultural Service- Learning in African American Communities
August Hoffman, Richard Carifo, Eduardo Sanchez, & Julie Wallach Sowing Seeds of Success: Gardening as a Method of Increasing Academic Self-Efficacy and Retention among African American Students
Troy Harden The Liberator or the Sell Out: Issues of Identity, Place, and Praxis for a Black Man as a Service-Learning Educator in a Predominantly White Institution
Annemarie Vaccaro Racial Identity and the Ethics of Service Learning as Pedagogy
Meta Mendel-Reyes & Dwayne Mack We'll Understand it Better By and By": Three Dimensional Approach to Teaching Race Through Community Engagement
PART III: COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH
CBR Introduction: DeMond Miller
Fleda Mask Jackson Black Like Me: Community-Based Participatory Research with African American Women
Micah McCreary, Monica Jones, John Fife, & Raymond Tademy A Partnership between the African American Church and the University: IMPPACT and S.P.I.C.E.S
Olivia Washington and David Moxley“I Have Three Strikes Against Me”: Narratives of Plight and Efficacy among Older African American Homeless Women and Their Implications for Engaged Inquiry
Richard Briscoe, Harold Keller, Gwen McClain, Evangeline Best, & Jessica Mazza Implementing A Culturally Competent Community-Based Research Approach with African American Neighborhoods: Critical Components and Examples
GiShawn Mance, Bernadette Sanchez, & Niambi Jaha-Echols Community Engagement and Collaborations in Community-Based Research: The Road to Project Butterfly
Final Word: Donald Blake
African Americans and Community Engagement (AACE) discusses race and its roles in university-community partnerships. This edited volume allows students, agency staff, community constituents, faculty, and campus administrators an opportunity to reflect and redefine what impact African American identity--in the academy and in the community--has on various forms of community engagement. From historic concepts of "race uplift" to contemporary debates about racialized perceptions of need (seen in discussion of "urban" communities or service efforts with Hurricane Katrina survivors), African American identity plays a significant role. This volume offers a cogent platform from which to encourage the difficult (yet much-needed) inclusion of race in dialogues of national service and community engagement. Social change can happen more effectively through critically discussing assumptions, expectations, experiences, and perspectives that emerge when placing race at the center of town-gown communication and practice. The AACE chapters represent best practices, recommendations, personal insight, and informed warnings about building sustainable--and mutually beneficial--relationships.
“Investing in the Legacy: Living Narratives of University of Florida’s Black Alumni”
34 minutes
At the 2009 Black Alumni Weekend Welcome Reception, Dr. Stephanie Evans discussed the importance of oral history to educational institutions and to Black communities. She highlighted published and online resources on Black history at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, and in the state of Florida—especially the Sam Proctor Oral History Program http://www.history.ufl.edu/oral/, UF Special Collections http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/default.htm, and the African American Studies Program http://www.clas.ufl.edu/afam/. The lecture ends with a facilitated small group discussion about past experiences of UF African American Alumni. Handout and resource links available at www.professorevans.com.
Video features Linda Jackson, Dr. Leland Patouillet, Joel Buchanan, and Alicia Antone. Full schedule of UF Association of Black Alumni Weekend activities located online at http://www.ufalumni.ufl.edu/sig/aba/blackalumniweekend/schedule/.
2009 "Assessing Graduate Training in Africana Studies: Creating Community as the Interdiscipline Expands." Forty Years at Vassar College: Africana Identities in the Diaspora, 40th Anniversary Commemorative Conference. Poughkeepsie, NY. April 17-19.
2008 “Soweto Gospel Choir ." Phillips Performing Arts Center. Gainesville, FL. November 28.
2008 "The History & Impact of Black Women in Higher Education: Reflecting on Intellectual History." Association of Black Women in Higher Education. Princeton University. October 10.
2008 "The Life and Legacy of Fanny Jackson Coppin." Annual Convocation Lecture. Coppin State University. September 26.
2008 “Cultural Identity and Community Engagement: Service, Partnership, or Community Building?" Annual Service Convocation Lecture. Berea College, KY. May 1.
2008 “Race, Gender, and Public Higher Education in Florida. Matheson Museum. Gainesville, FL. April 22.
2008 “Coalition Music: Reflections of Sweet Honey in the Rock ." Phillips Performing Arts Center. Gainesville, FL. February 15.
2008 “Race and Gender in Higher Education--The Power of Diversity." Sieman's Power Generation Company. Orlando, FL. February 15.
2008 “Phenomenal Women in Higher Education." Black History Month Program. Colorado State University, CO. February 8.
2008 “Un-covering the College Achievement Gap ." Education Writers Association Regional Seminar. Tennessean Newspaper/Vanderbilt University. Nashville, TN. February 1.
2007 "Black Women in the Ivory Tower: Cultural Identity and Early Doctoral Dissertations."
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign African American Studies and Research
Program & History Department. Urbana, IL. March 29.
2004 "Fire as the Muse: Black Women's Educational Attainment and Intellectual Legacy in Higher Education." Peanut Butter and Gender Lecture Series. Center for Excellence in Learning Through Service, Women’s Studies, and African American Studies co-sponsors. Also gave four guest lectures to Political Science, Women’s Studies, Literature, and Black Studies classes. Berea College, KY. November 10-12.
2002 “Black Women as Educational Leaders: A History of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement.” Colloquium and Diversity Seminar. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. November 30.
2002 “Black Women as Educational Leaders: Models for Dissolution of ‘Town / Gown’ Divisions in Community Development Work.” Curriculum Development Seminar Lecture Series: “Addressing Diversity Issues in City and Regional Planning.” Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. November 29.
2002 **"Living Legacies: Black Women, Education, and Public Service. An historical analysis of the presence, oppression, contribution, and creative resistance of Black women in American education." "The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society Presents" - Lecture Series. Co-Sponsored by Brown University's Sarah Doyle Women's Center, Africana Studies, and the Swearer Center for Public Service. Rhode Island Foundation. Providence, RI. November 12.
NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
** = invited
2009 "IJAS Editor Session: Africana Studies at the Graduate Level: A Twenty-First Century Perspective." National Council for Black Studies (NCBS). Atlanta, GA. March 19-21.
2008 ** "Women of Color in Academia" panelist and "Balancing Academic Substance with Polished Presentation, or The Finer Pointsof Shameless Self-Promotion", workshop presenter. SREB - Compact for Faculty Diversity. Institute on Teaching and Mentoring. Tampa, FL. October 26-26.
2008 "World House at Morehouse" Live webcast from Morehouse College, University of Florida, India, China, Kenya, and South Africa. Commemorating the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. April 4.
2008 Panel Moderator, "The Future of U.S. Intellectual History: Challenges and Possibilities." OAH. New York City. March 29.
2008 "Swellings in the Sable Sea and Ivory Tower: Applying African American Female Intellectual History to Contemporary Academe." Panelist. "Creating Equilibrium in the Compost Heap: The Contributions of African American Women in U.S. Academies and Society." AERA. New York City. March 25.
2008 ** "Preparing Future Faculty ." Plenary Presentation/ Workshop. National Black Graduate Student Association. Chicago, IL. March 15.
2007 "Anna Julia Cooper in Context: Black women's (Inter)national Academic Identities." University of Paris, Sorbonne. France. March 14.
2007 "Black Women in the Ivory Tower: An Argument for Recognizing an Intellectual Democracy." ABWH: Three New Books in Black Intellectual History: A Discussion of Convergence and Divergence in Academic Lives. Panel with Layli Phillips and Francille Wilson. Comment by Robert Pratt and Lee Jones. October 4.
2007 **"Balancing Academic Substance with Polished Presentation, or The Finer Points
of Shameless Self-Promotion." SREB - Compact for Faculty Diversity. Institute on Teaching and Mentoring. Arlington, VA. October 27.
2007 **"Historical Sisters of the Academy : Using History as a Research and Publishing Tool." Panel presentation and mentoring workshops. Sisters of the Academy Boot Camp. Auburn University, Alabama. August 9-12.
2007 **"Applied Black Studies: Research and Teaching connected to Service." Keynote
address. Temple University, Department of African American Studies, Annual Graduate
Student Spring Conference. "Reconnecting Africana Studies and Community Agency:
Integrating Community, Self, and Scholarship. Philadelphia, PA. April 13-15.
2007 "Comparative Research Collaborations at African and European Partnerships: Tanzania
versus Paris." on panel The World Wide Web: Scholars Unite Through the Power of the Pen and Internet. American Education Research Association. Chicago, IL. April 9-13. Paper
accepted, unable to attend.
2007 "Black Women in the Ivory Tower: Cultural Identity and Intellectual Production in Early
Doctoral Dissertations." panel "Whose American Values? Black, White, Jewish,
Protestant, Male or Female?" OAH Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN. March 29-April 1.
Paper accepted, unable to attend.
2006 "Anna Julia Cooper's Personal and Academic (Inter)national Identity" for panel "A Usable Past and the Transnational Turn: Conflict or Congruence?" American Studies Association, Oakland, CA. October 14.
Paper read at panel.
2006 "The State and Future of the Ph.D. in Black Studies: Six Institutional Perspectives." Panel organizer and chair. Association for the Study of African Life and History Conference. Atlanta, GA. September 27-October 1.
In Fall 2005, Dr. Evans conducted a survey of the graduate coordinators at Temple, UMass, Berkeley, Michigan State, Harvard, and Northwestern to inquire about the history and state of doctoral programs in Black Studies. She asked quantitative questions about the makeup of the graduate populations and qualitative questions about the comprehensive examination. The results were published in an article titled "The State and Future of the PhD in Black Studies: Assessing the Role of the Comprehensive Examination" appearing in the Southern Conference on African American Studies' GRIOT (May 2006).
On this panel, department chairs of the programs discussed program origins, where they are at, and where graduate training is going. Over 150 people have earned a Ph.D. in Black Studies and there were about 75 enrolled in 2006--the numbers are increasing. With more programs developing on the horizon, questions emerge about the state of graduate training in Black Studies, especially in light of the fact that no doctoral program in Black Studies yet exists in the South.
2006 "From Dissertation to Book: A Panel for Junior Scholars." Panel organizer and chair. Association for the Study of African Life and History Conference. Atlanta, GA. September 27-October 1.
2005 "We Note with Much Alarm the Evident Retrogression in This Land": Young Black Scholars and Current Crisis in America. 90th Annual Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference. Buffalo, New York. October 5-9.
2005 ** "'This Right to Grow': African American Women's Intellectual Legacy " in "Intellectual History: Pedagogy of a Usable Past" colloquium. Third International Conference on New Directions in Humanities.Competitive panel submission to "History and Theory" List. University of Cambridge, England. August 2-5.
2005 **"Cultural Identity and Community Service-Learning Course Construction." Bonner Foundation Conference. Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). Meeting for Civic Engagement Certificate Program. Bonner Foundation, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. January. (Attendee)
2004 "A History of Black Women's Quest for Higher Educational Attainment" on panel, "Women of Color in Higher Education: Past, Present, and Future Scholars." Panel proposal co-editor. American Educational Research Association annual meeting. San Diego, CA. April 12 - 16.
2003 "Living Legacies: Recognizing Black Women's Intellectual Contributions to Philosophies of Experiential Education," on panel "The Theory, Practice, and Politics of Black Women in Higher Education, 1865-1965." 88th Annual Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference.$500.00 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Travel Grant awarded. Milwaukee, WI. September 23 - 38.
2003 “Fostering Positive Relationships in a Hostile Environment: Blacks and Latinas - Bad Women Doing Good Work.” on panel, “Latina’s on the Move: Sisters in the Academy.” Brown at Brown: The 1st Annual New England Latino Leadership Conference. Brown University. Providence, RI. February 22.
2002 “Black Women as Theoretical Foremothers of Community, Service, and Learning” on panel, “Feminist Response to the Service Learning Movement.” The Pew Charitable Trusts Campus Compact National Summit: “Realizing the Civic Mission of Higher Education.” Providence, RI. November 7 - 9.
2002 Harvard Hip Hop Archive / Community Activism and Education Roundtable. Cambridge, MA. Invited attendee. September 28.
2002 **"Service-Learning Opportunities at HBCUs" on panel, "The Historical Imperative of Black Institutions and Its Importance to the Civic Engagement Movement in Higher Education" sponsored by National Campus Compact. 8th National HBCU Faculty Development Network Symposium. Norfolk, VA. October 17 - 21.
2002 "Presence, Oppression, Contribution, and Creative Resistance in Black Women's Historical Educational Experiences" on panel, "Black Women and Education: An Historical Overview." 87th Annual Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference.Orlando, FL. October 2 - 6.
2001 National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) Annual Conference Attendee. Washington, D.C.
2000 Colloquia participant as National Campus Compact Emerging Scholar. Campus Compact Colloquia on Community Based Learning and Civic Engagement for Women’s Colleges. Whispering Pines. West Greenwich, RI. November 8 - 10.
2000 "African American Educational Leaders and Community Engagement" (poster) 6th Annual Invisible College National Gathering for Service-learning Educators. "Bridging the Gap: Service Learning to Social Justice" (Invisible College now known as Educators for Community Engagement). Georgetown University. Washington D.C. June 22 - 24.
2000 "Speaking from Experience: Cultural Identity on and off Campus" on panel, "Service-Learning: Principles and Practices in a Multicultural Setting" American Association of Higher Education National Conference "To Form a More Perfect Union: Diversity and Learning" Anaheim, CA. March 29 - April 2.
1999 "Activism: The Fundamental Link Between Women's Studies and Service Learning." 20th National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM. June 17-20.
1998 "How Solid is the Rock?: Gauging the Historical Accuracy of Schoolhouse Rock" on panel "New Scholars for the New Century: Student Debut Papers on African Americans and the Media." 84th National Communication Association Annual Convention. New York, NY. November 21-24.
1998 National Organization for Women National Conference / Seneca Falls' 150th Anniversary Celebration Rochester, NY. Sponsored attendee, signer of the 1998 NOW Declaration of Sentiments. July 10-19.
1998 "A Cultural Framework for the Study of Sport History and Brazil" panel. VI Congresso Brasileiro De Historia Do Esporte, Lazer E Educacao Fisica. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. December.