Kufundisha: Toward a Pedagogy for Black Studies

Abstract

At its inception, Black studies aimed to revolutionize the research and teaching of the Black experience. In part, the new discipline has accomplished its mission. During the past 25 years, Black studies scholars have radically transformed how scholars study the African American experience. Before the development of Black studies, African American life and history were studied predominantly through the lens of the race relations paradigm. Scholars using this conceptual framework examined the sociohistorical experiences of African people via their relationship to