May 19, 2000

Black Studies 101: Introductory Courses Reflect a Field Still Defining Itself

By ALISON SCHNEIDER

A canon evolves amid approaches that are literary, feminist, cultural, Afrocentric, and more

The black-studies curriculum is perhaps better defined by what it's not than what it is. It's not tidy. It has no clear boundaries. Unlike, say, economics or chemistry, there

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