Reviews for African American Criminologists, 1970-1996: An Annotated Bibliography, Vol. 36

The average rating for African American Criminologists, 1970-1996: An Annotated Bibliography, Vol. 36 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-05-20 00:00:00 Carl Ford A large portion of this book is out of date, mainly because it is primarily a handbook, and its lists of significant libraries, institutions, and publications can no longer be considered current (though I don't doubt that many of the things listed are still significant today, it's just that I can't be sure). Another large portion of this book is sadly current even though it probably wasn't meant to be. Many of the issues discussed in these academic essays deal with education, curricula, ethnic and cultural studies, hegemony, and racism, and even though now these issues deal more centrally with a different ethnic group, they are sadly prevalent and big problems even years after this book was published. That's not to say I didn't find them fascinating and informative, though. The essays in this book that were actually essays, rather than listings, highlighted tons of areas of librarianship and gave me a glimpse into my next three years as an MS student.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-10-25 00:00:00 Marygrace Amador A Dream Deferred Made Real Scholars Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., paid homage to the great W.E.B. Du Bois' dream to produce an encyclopedia cataloguing the achievements and history of the African Diaspora with the publication in 1999 of the massive 2,095-page AFRICANA: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. Appiah and Gates duly acknowledge Du Bois' many contributions to history, literature, and the struggle for human rights around the world with: their dedication of the book to him, a regular encyclopedia entry on his achievements, and an "interpretation" by Cornel West of his historical significance. While AFRICANA is exactly what the title implies, it is also quite a bit more. The book itself represents a major achievement of publishing technology. What Du Bois was not able to accomplish by sheer brain power and intellectual camaraderie, Appiah and Gates achieved through developments in modern communication technology, the computer, and a global team of dedicated intellectuals. The scope of AFRICANA encompasses literature, religion, music, dance, sociology, politics, and, above all, history. In reading the book for pleasure or referencing it for specific topics, one realizes just how much of the African-American and African experience has shaped and defined the greater modern human experience. Poet-I-Am Aberjhani Author of THE WISDOM OF W.E.B. DU BOIS And ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE