The Johns Hopkins University Africana Studies Critical Thought Collective (ASCTC) is an initiative launched by The Center for Africana Studies in the spring of 2007. The purpose of the collective is to gather together scholars in Baltimore, the greater Maryland region, and the Washington, DC metropolitan area in order to discuss works that are currently groundbreaking in the field of Africana Studies. Each meeting centers on a discussion of either a single article or chapter selections from a major book. Through this intellectual exchange, participants offer perspectives on how the texts impact pedagogy in Africana Studies as well as build a growing network among colleagues in the area contributing their own ideas to theorizing the intricacies of the field.
Upcoming: Spring 2009 Schedule | |
 | Thursday, February 19, 2009
5-6:30p, Greenhouse 113
Houston Baker, BETRAYAL: HOW BLACK
INTELLECTUALS HAVE ABANDONED THE
IDEALS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
(New York: Columbia University Press,
2008)
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 | Thursday, March 12, 2009
5-6:30p, Greenhouse 113
Stuart Tyson Smith, WRETCHED KUSH: ETHNIC IDENTITIES AND BOUNDARIES IN
EGYPT'S NUBIAN EMPIRE (London: Routledge, 2003) | |
 | Wednesday, April 22, 2009
5-6:30p, Greenhouse 113
Carole Boyce Davies, LEFT OF KARL MARX: THE POLITICAL LIFE OF BLACK
COMMUNIST CLAUDIA JONES (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008) | |
Past Discussions: Fall 2008 Schedule | |
| Thursday, September 25th,
5-6:30p, Greenhouse 113
Kevin Meehan, " 'To Shake This Nation as Nothing before Has Shaken It': C.L.R. James, Radical Fieldwork, and African American Popular
Culture," in Lizabeth Paravisini-Gerbert and Ivette Romero-Cesareo,
Eds., DISPLACEMENTS AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN CARIBBEAN CULTURES
(Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008): 77-99. | |
| Thursday, October 23rd,
5-6:30p, Greenhouse 113
Paul R. Mullins, "Excavating America's Metaphor: Race, Diaspora, and
Vindicationist Archaeologies" HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY 42.2 (2008):
104-122. | |
| Thursday, November 20th,
5-6:30p, Greenhouse 113
Silvio Torres-Saillant, AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE CARIBBEAN (New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). | |
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Past Discussions: Spring 2008 | |
 | Thursday February 7th
5-6:30 PM, Greenhouse 113
Saidiya Hartman
LOSE YOUR MOTHER: A JOURNEY ALONG THE ATLANTIC SLAVE ROUTE (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007) | |
 | Wednesday February 20th,
5-6:30 PM, Greenhouse 113
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.,
IN A SHADE OF BLUE: PRAGMATISM AND THE POLITICS OF BLACK AMERICA (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007) | |
 | Thursday March 6th,
5-6:30 PM, Greenhouse 113
Elias K. Bongmba,
THE DIALECTICS OF TRANSFORMATION IN AFRICA (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) | |
 | Wednesday March 26th,
5-6:30 PM, Greenhouse 113 Mary Pattillo, BLACK ON THE BLOCK: THE POLITICS OF RACE AND CLASS IN THE CITY (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007) | |
 | Thursday April 17th,
5-6:30 PM, Greenhouse 113 Michelle Ann Stephens, BLACK EMPIRE: THE MASCULINE GLOBAL IMAGINARY OF CARIBBEAN INTELLECTUALS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1914-1962 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005) | |
 | Wednesday April 30th,
5-6:30 PM, Greenhouse 113
Lewis R. Gordon, AN INTRODUCTION TO AFRICANA PHILOSOPHY (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) | |
Past Discussions: Fall 2007 | |
 | Tuesday September 25th, 5 -6:30 PM, Greenhouse 113
Reading selection to be discussed: Arnold Rampersad, RALPH ELLISON: A BIOGRAPHY (New York: Alfred Knopf, 2007) | |
 | Thursday October 18th, 5-6:30 PM, Greenhouse 113
Reading selection to be discussed: Hazel Carby, “The New Auction Block: Blackness and the Marketplace,” in L. Gordon and J. Gordon, Eds., A COMPANION TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006, pp.119-135) | |
 | Thursday November 8th, 5-6:30 PM, Greenhouse 113
Reading selection to be discussed: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, SLAVERY AND AFRICAN ETHNICITIES IN THE AMERICAS: RESTORING THE LINKS (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005) | |
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