Handbook of Black Studies

Preface - Molefi Kete Asante and Maulana Karenga PART I: Historical and Cultural Foundations The Intellectual Basis of the Black Studies Discourse Interdisciplinary, Transdisciplinary or Unidisciplinary: Africana Studies and the Vexing Question of Definition - Ama Mazama Black to the Future: Black Studies and Network Nommo - Norman Harris Impact and Significance in the Academy African Communication Patterns and the Black Studies Inheritance - Charles Okigbo Women in the Development of Africana Studies - Delores P. Aldridge Theorizing in Black Studies Afrocentricity and Racial Socialization Among African American College Students - P. Masila Mutisya and Louie E. Ross Philosophy and Practice for Black Studies: The Case of Researching White Supremacy - Mark Christian Researching the Lives of the Enslaved: The State of the Scholarship - Katherine Olukemi Bankole Antiracism: Theorizing in the Context of Perils and Desires - George J. Sefa Dei PART II. Philosophical and Practical Bases Reflection and Knowledge Graduate Studies Programs in African American Studies - Ama Mazama Africana Critical Theory of Contemporary Society: The Role of Radical Politics, Social Theory, and Africana Philosophy - Reiland Rabaka Afrocentricity: Notes on a Disciplinary Position - Molefi Kete Asante Black Studies, Social Transformation and Education Revisiting Brown, Reaffirming Black: Reflections on Race, Law and Struggle - Maulana Karenga African American Politics: The Black Studies Perspective - Charles P. Henry Black Studies in the Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Daryl Zizwe Poe African American Studies Programs in North America and the Teaching of Africa: Myth, Reality, and Reconstruction - Emmanuel Ngwainmbi An African Nationalist Ideology in Diaspora and the Development Quagmire: Political Implications - Cecil Blake PART III. Critical and Analytical Measures Analytical Methods The Canons of Afrocentric Research - Ruth Reviere Africana Studies and the Problems in Egyptology: The Case of Ancient Egyptian Kinship - Troy Allen The Context of Agency: Liberating African Consciousness From Postcolonial Discourse Theory - Virgilette Nzingha Gaffin Kilombismo: An African Brazilian Orientation to Africology - Elisa Larkin Nascimento Black Studies and the Social Work Paradigm: Implications of a New Analysis - Mekada Graham The Pursuit of Africology: On the Creation and Sustaining of Black Studies - Molefi Kete Asante Data Collection and Reporting The Interview Technique as Oral History in Black Studies - Diane D. Turner Decapitated and Lynched Forms: Suggested Ways of Examining Contemporary Texts - Willie Cannon-Brown Film as Historical Method in Black Studies: Documenting the African Experience - Adeniyi Coker PART IV. The Future of the Field Sciences, Agency, and the Discipline Social Discourse Without Abandoning African Agency: An Eshuean Response to Intellectual Dilemma - Molefi Kete Asante Social Science and Systematic Inquiry in Africana Studies: Challenges for the 21st Century - James B. Stewart The Field, Function and Future of Africana Studies: Critical Reflections on Its Mission, Meaning and Methodology - Maulana Karenga Appendix. The Naming of the Discipline: The Unsettled Discourse Index About the Editors and Contributors