The Handbook of Black Studies is the first resource to bring together research and scholarship in the field of African-American studies in one volume.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• I: Historical and Cultural Foundations
• 1. 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
• 2. 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
• 3. 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
• II. Philosophical and Practical Bases
• 4. 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
• 5. 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
• III. Critical and Analytical Measures
• 6. 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
• 7. 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
• IV. The Future of the Field
• 8. 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
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors