RT Article
T1 Black/Africana Studies and Black/Africana Biblical Studies
JF Brill research perspectives in Biblical interpretation
VO 4
IS 2
SP 1
OP 92
A1 Smith, Abraham
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/173803285X
AB In this study, Abraham Smith introduces the nature, history, and interventions of two theoretical-political cultural productions: Black/Africana studies (the systematic and rigorous study of Africa and African descendants) and Black/Africana biblical studies (a biblical studies’ subfield that analyzes and appraises the strategies of reception and the historical and contemporary impact of the Christian bible for people of African descent). Both cultural productions were formally introduced in U.S. educational institutions in the late 1960s as a part of the Black Freedom movement. Both have long and deep intellectual antecedents on the one hand and ever-evolving recent interventions that challenge a narrow politics of identity on the other. Through the interrogation of keywords (such as race, family, and Hip Hop or cartographies, canons, and contexts), moreover, the study examines how these two theoretical-political projects question the settled epistemologies or prevailing intellectual currencies of their respective times.
K1 Black Lives Matter
K1 Hip Hop
K1 Canons
K1 cartographies
K1 contexts
K1 Family
K1 politics of identity
K1 Race
K1 Scripture
K1 Africa
DO 10.1163/24057657-12340016