About the Book:This groundbreaking volume establishes new perspectives on black history–its scholarship and pedagogy, scholars and interpreters, and evolution as a profession. Pero Gaglo Dagbovie discusses a wide range of issues and themes for understanding and analyzing African American history, the twentieth century black historical enterprise, and the teaching of African American history for the twenty-first century. Additional topics include the hip-hop generation’s relationship to and interpretations of African American history; past, present, and future approaches to the subject; and the social construct of knowledge in African American historiography. An examination of definitions of black history from W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk and a survey of early black women historians lend further dimension and authenticity to the volume. A bold contribution to the growing fields of African American historiography and the philosophy of black history, African American History Reconsidered offers numerous analytical frameworks for understanding and delving into a variety of dimensions of the African American historical experience.Table of Contents: Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1. Conceptualizing Black History, 1903-2006 17 2. Approaches to Teaching and Learning African American History 48 3. Carter G. Woodson’s Appeal, Black History, and Black Radical Thought 77 4. “Ample Proof of This May Be Found”: Early Black Women Historians 99 5. “Shadow vs. Substance”: Deconstructing Booker T. Washington 127 6. Genocide and African American History 158 Conclusion 197 Notes 203 Index 241