Handbook of Black studies

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The first handbook that brings together research and scholarship in the field of African-American or Black Studies. It is intended for libraries as well as graduate researchers seeking to ascertain the current state of the research in African American Studies. The Handbook has four main divisions: Historical and Cultural Foundations, Philosophical and Conceptual Basis, Critical and Analytical Concepts, and Future of the Field.  Read more... The intellectual basis of the Black studies discourse: Interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, or unidisciplinary? / Ama Mazama. Black to the future / 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 / Mark Christian. Researching the lives of the enslaved / Katherine Olukemi Bankole. Antiracism / George J. Sefa Dei -- Reflection and knowledge: Graduate studies programs in African American studies / Ama Mazama. Africana critical theory of contemporary society / Reiland Rabaka. Afrocentricity / Molefi Kete Asante -- Black studies, social transformation, and education: Revisiting Brown, reaffirming Black / Maulana Karenga. African American politics / 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 / Emmanuel Ngwainmbi. An African nationalist ideology in diaspora and the development quagmire / Cecil Blake -- Analytical methods: The canons of Afrocentric research / Ruth Reviere. Africana studies and the problems in Egyptology / Troy Allen. The context of agency / Virgilette Nzingha Gaffin. Kilombismo / Elisa Larkin Nascimento. Black studies and the social work paradigm / Mekada Graham. The pursuit of Africology / Molefi Kete Asante -- Data collection and reporting: The interview technique as oral history in Black studies / Diane D. Turner. Decapitated and lynched forms / Willie Cannon-Brown. Film as historical method in Black studies / Adeniyi Coker -- Sciences, agency, and the discipline: Social discourse without abandoning African agency / Molefi Kete Asante. Social science and systematic inquiry in Africana studies / James B. Stewart. The field, function, and future of Africana studies / Maulana Karenga.