Roots of Afrocentric Thought: A Reference Guide to Negro Digest/Black World, 1961-1976

The uniqueness, sweeping content, and timing of Negro Digest/Black World give it enormous historical and scholarly importance. The most influential and widely read Black literary magazine in the 1960s, Negro Digest played a critical role in the era's Black Arts and Black Consciousness movement and is the most complete voice of that movement. Renamed Black World in 1970, the magazine gave voice to scholars coining and developing the concept of Afrocentric and African-centered analysis. An analysis of Afrocentric methods and discourse would not be complete without an examination of this magazine. This reference guide provides easy access to this valuable publication.

Part One includes chapters on Literature and Literary Criticism, History, Mass Media and the Arts, and Social and Political Analysis, which provide annotations on original articles and speeches. Part Two indexes original materials, including poetry, short stories and plays, reviews, and interviews.

Author: Clovis E. Semmes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 02/12/1998
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.43w x 1.25d
ISBN: 9780313299926

Review Citation(s):
American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/1999 pg. 410

About the Author

CLOVIS E. SEMMES is Professor of African American Studies at Eastern Michigan University. His teaching and research focus on African American institutions and culture, inequality, and health and illness behavior. He is the author of Cultural Hegemony and African American Development (Praeger, 1992) and Racism, Health, and Post-Industrialism: A Theory of African-American Health (Praeger, 1996).