Historical Connections & Comparisons [978-1-59907-3149]

Author : James Quirin

ISBN Code : 978-1-59907-3149
Language : English
Pages number : 664
Format : Paperback

The articles in this collection span 38 years, from 1979-2017, during most of which time the author was a professor of history at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. The first three sections are the results of his original research on the history of the Ethiopian Jews before their migrations to Israel, as well as the related socio-ethnic history of other peoples in Northwestern Ethiopia. One of these sections focuses specifically with the complex issue of using written and oral sources for these analyses. A fourth section provides a few examples of teaching methodological issues during his long teaching career, including one article on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. The final two sections were stimulated by his decades-long teaching world history and African history at Fisk University, a pre-eminent HBCU (Historically Black College or University). These topics include the process by which W.E.B. Du Bois, the most famous graduate of Fisk, became a scholar and activist of African history and contemporary issues; the historical relationships of Fisk and Africa, including Fisk students who became missionaries in Africa in the late nineteenth century; Pan-Africanism and African American perceptions of the Battle of Adwa; and a short comparative discussion of the kind of education (“head or hand”) favored by different people. The final section deals with major issues relating to the significance of African history in relationship to world history. Many of the articles began as conference presentations given in the United States, Africa, Europe or Asia, while others were journal articles originally.

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Preface

Foreword

 

1. REFLECTIONS on BETA ISRAEL (FALASHA) STUDIES

2. BETA ISRAEL and COMPARATIVE SOCIAL-ETHNIC HISTORY of NORTHWEST ETHIOPIA

3. ORAL and WRITTEN SOURCE ANALYSIS

4. STUDIES in TEACHING HISTORY METHODOLOGY

5. HISTORICAL CONNECTIONS and COMPARISONS: ETHIOPIA, AFRICA, AFRICAN AMERICA, FISK UNIVERSITY

6. COMPARATIVE AFRICAN and WORLD HISTORY

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