Clovis Semmes extends Afrocentric social theory by formulating
the problem of structured inequality for African Americans in terms
of cultural hegemony. Cultural Hegemony and African American
Development challenges oppositional and segmented analyses that
look at Black inequality in terms of either economic dislocation or
racial oppression, and introduces the idea that what is at stake
are the issues of progressive cultural adaptation, cultural
reconstruction, and institutional development. What emerges is a
new way of seeing and understanding the intellectual tradition and
body of knowledge called Black, African American, or Africana
Studies.
In chapter 1 Semmes defines the relationship between cultural
hegemony and the African American experience and establishes how
this relationship creates distinctive and recurring problems for
development. The following two chapters analyze the works by
sociologists E. Franklin Frazier and Harold Cruse. Chapter 4
explores the role of legitimacy in psychological and social
psychological adaptation, and inter- and intra-group relations. In
Chapter 5, Semmes analyzes the relationship between the political
economy of the mass media and African American aesthetic and
artistic production, and argues that the expropriation of African
American cultural products is a structural problem contributing to
cultural negation. Chapters 6 and 7 examine two important
institutional forms: religion and health. Next Semmes looks at the
significance of cultural revitalization efforts which reveal the
collectively-felt need to transcend destructive hegemony. He
concludes with a chapter on factors affecting the production of
knowledge in African American studies and the implications for
cultural development. Sociologists and scholars in Ethnic and
American Studies, as well as African American Studies, will find
this study useful.
General
Imprint: |
Praeger Publishers Inc
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 1992 |
First published: |
November 1992 |
Authors: |
Clovis E. Semmes
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-275-93923-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
General
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LSN: |
0-275-93923-5 |
Barcode: |
9780275939236 |
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