Abdul Alkalimat is a founder of the field of Black Studies and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. A lifelong scholar-activist with a PhD from the University of Chicago, he has lectured, taught and directed academic programs across the US, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and China. His activism extends from having been chair of the Chicago chapter of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s, to a co-founder of the Black Radical Congress in 1998.

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Introduction

PART I: BLACK STUDIES AS INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

1. The Academic Disciplines

2. The Historically Black Colleges and Universities

3. The Political Culture of the Black Community

PART II: BLACK STUDIES AS SOCIAL MOVEMENT

4. The Freedom Movement

5. The Black Power Movement

6. The Black Arts Movement

7. The New Communist Movement

8. The Black Women's Movement

9. The Black Student Movement

PART III: BLACK STUDIES AS ACADEMIC PROFESSION

10. Disrupting

11. Building Consensus

12. Building Institutions

13. Establishing the Profession

14. Theorizing

15. Norming Research

Conclusion

Appendix

Bibliography

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