There's No Place like "Home": Mining the Theoretical Terrain of Black Women's Studies, Black Queer Studies and Black Studies From: The Journal of Pan African Studies (Online) | Date: March 1, 2008| Author: Story, Kaila Adia | Copyright Itabari Zulu Mar 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Abstract

The sociopolitical heterogeneities of Black Studies as a discipline have historically and presently engendered various alternative disciplines where its "former" members have sought ideological solace and theoretical reflection. The historical dialectic of Black Women's Studies and the newly emergent dialogue of Black Queer Studies seek to provide their inhabitants with the specificities of liberation that Black Studies does not make transparent in its various theoretical scho...

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