Esperanza Brizuela-García
Biographic Data
| ID | 4769587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esperanza Brizuela-García |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esperanza |
| FAMILY NAME | Brizuela-García |
| SIGNATURE | BRIZUELA-GARCÍA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Montclair State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cosmopolitanism: Why Nineteenth Century Gold Coast Thinkers Matter in the Twenty-First Century
In his 1903 Gold Coast Native Institutions , the renowned Gold Coast lawyer and journalist Joseph Ephraim Casely-Hayford wrote: > In the present work I have indicated, or attempted to indicate, the true nature of the problem which Great Britain has to face in her administration of the Gold Coast
Literacy and the Decolonization of Africa's Intellectual History
In his book In My Father's House Anthony Appiah made a powerful argument for historians and intellectuals at large to recognize the diverse and complex nature of Africa's cultural and historical experiences. He stated, for instance, that: “ideological decolonization is bound to fail if it neglects either endogenous ‘tradition’ or exogenous ‘Western’ ideas, and that many African (and African American) intellectuals have failed to find a negotiable…
Towards a critical interdisciplinarity? African history and the reconstruction of universal narratives
This article examines the question of whether interdisciplinary research has the potential of radically transforming current understandings of the historical discipline by looking at the case of African historiography. It starts by explaining current debates about the nature of history by looking at the arguments of reconstructionist, constructionist and deconstructionist historians. It acknowledges that the majority of Africanist historians subs…
The History of Africanization and the Africanization of History
The idea of Africanization is arguably one of the most important and prevalent in African historiography and African studies. I first encountered this notion some eight years ago when I started graduate school. With a background in Mexican and Latin American history, I found it necessary to immerse myself in the historiography of Africa. It was in this process that I encountered the idea of Africanization. It was not always identified in this man…
A History of Africa
J. D. Fage and William Todoroff. A History of 4th Edition. London/New York: Routledge, 2002. xi + 653 pp. Illustrations. Tables. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $28.95. Paper. Christopher Ehret. The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002. 480 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Recommended readings. Index. $50.00. Cloth. $22.50. Paper. The writing of an African history textbook is certainly a chall…
Literacy and the Decolonization of Africa's Intellectual History
In his book In My Father's House Anthony Appiah made a powerful argument for historians and intellectuals at large to recognize the diverse and complex nature of Africa's cultural and historical experiences. He stated, for instance, that: “ideological decolonization is bound to fail if it neglects either endogenous ‘tradition’ or exogenous ‘Western’ ideas, and that many African (and African American) intellectuals have failed to find a negotiable…
The History of Africanization and the Africanization of History
The idea of Africanization is arguably one of the most important and prevalent in African historiography and African studies. I first encountered this notion some eight years ago when I started graduate school. With a background in Mexican and Latin American history, I found it necessary to immerse myself in the historiography of Africa. It was in this process that I encountered the idea of Africanization. It was not always identified in this man…
Towards a critical interdisciplinarity? African history and the reconstruction of universal narratives
This article examines the question of whether interdisciplinary research has the potential of radically transforming current understandings of the historical discipline by looking at the case of African historiography. It starts by explaining current debates about the nature of history by looking at the arguments of reconstructionist, constructionist and deconstructionist historians. It acknowledges that the majority of Africanist historians subs…
A History of Africa
J. D. Fage and William Todoroff. A History of 4th Edition. London/New York: Routledge, 2002. xi + 653 pp. Illustrations. Tables. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $28.95. Paper. Christopher Ehret. The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002. 480 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Recommended readings. Index. $50.00. Cloth. $22.50. Paper. The writing of an African history textbook is certainly a chall…
The History of Africanization and the Africanization of History
The idea of Africanization is arguably one of the most important and prevalent in African historiography and African studies. I first encountered this notion some eight years ago when I started graduate school. With a background in Mexican and Latin American history, I found it necessary to immerse myself in the historiography of Africa. It was in this process that I encountered the idea of Africanization. It was not always identified in this man…
Towards a critical interdisciplinarity? African history and the reconstruction of universal narratives
This article examines the question of whether interdisciplinary research has the potential of radically transforming current understandings of the historical discipline by looking at the case of African historiography. It starts by explaining current debates about the nature of history by looking at the arguments of reconstructionist, constructionist and deconstructionist historians. It acknowledges that the majority of Africanist historians subs…
Literacy and the Decolonization of Africa's Intellectual History
In his book In My Father's House Anthony Appiah made a powerful argument for historians and intellectuals at large to recognize the diverse and complex nature of Africa's cultural and historical experiences. He stated, for instance, that: “ideological decolonization is bound to fail if it neglects either endogenous ‘tradition’ or exogenous ‘Western’ ideas, and that many African (and African American) intellectuals have failed to find a negotiable…
Cosmopolitanism: Why Nineteenth Century Gold Coast Thinkers Matter in the Twenty-First Century
In his 1903 Gold Coast Native Institutions , the renowned Gold Coast lawyer and journalist Joseph Ephraim Casely-Hayford wrote: > In the present work I have indicated, or attempted to indicate, the true nature of the problem which Great Britain has to face in her administration of the Gold Coast
History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works)