{"product_id":"introduction-to-african-american-studies-9781580730396","title":"Introduction to African American Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003eHighly Recommended. All levels\/libraries--CHOICE  Everything you need to teach African American Studies is in this book.--Ahmad Rahman  Associate Professor of History  University of Michigan.  There is an ongoing debate as to whether African American Studies is a discipline  or multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary field. Some scholars assert that African American Studies use a well-defined common approach in examining history  politics  and the family in the same way as scholars in the disciplines of economics  sociology  and political science. Other scholars consider African American Studies multidisciplinary  a field somewhat comparable to the field of education in which scholars employ a variety of disciplinary lenses-be they anthropological  psychological  historical  etc.  --to study the African world experience. In this model the boundaries between traditional disciplines are accepted  and researches in African American Studies simply conduct discipline based an analysis of particular topics. Finally  another group of scholars insists that African American Studies is interdisciplinary  an enterprise that generates distinctive analyses by combining perspectives from different traditional disciplines and synthesizing them into a unique framework of analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652832845877,"sku":"ByrdShop_1580730396","price":60.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781580730396.jpg?v=1781852926","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/introduction-to-african-american-studies-9781580730396","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}