Afro-American studies

Japanese: Afro-American studies(英語表記)AfroAmericanstudies
Afro-American studies

...It was established in universities as a result of the women's liberation movement that gained momentum in the 1970s. In the 1960s, as part of university reform in the United States, courses in Afro-American studies were established with the aim of improving the status of black people, and this was a response to this. There are various types, such as women's sociology, women's psychology, women's history, and women's literature, and by making women the object of study, it not only brings the presence of women into focus in all academic fields, but also emphasizes the perspective of women as the research subject, and seeks to correct the bias of conventional academic fields. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Afro-American studies" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…1970年に盛り上がった女性解放の運動によって大学に設置された。1960年代の黒人運動および大学紛争において,アメリカでは大学改革の一環として,黒人の地位向上を目ざす黒人学Afro‐American studiesの講座が設置されるようになったが,それに対応している。女性社会学,女性心理学,女性史,女性文学などの種類があり,女性を学問の対象(オブジェクト)とすることによって,あらゆる学問の中に女性の存在をクローズアップさせるばかりでなく,研究主体(サブジェクト)としての女性の眼を重視し従来の学問の偏向をただそうとする。…

※「Afro-American studies」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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