Afrocentricity and the Academy

The late James L. Conyers, Jr., winner of the Cheikh Anta Diop Ankh Award for Distinguished Research in the Discipline of African American Studies, was the director of the African American Studies Program and university professor of African American Studies at the University of Houston.

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• Table of ContentsPreface      Part 1: Pedagogy and ImplementationAfrican American Achievement: Using Critical Pedagogy to Critique a Plan Intending to Address Educational DisparitiesCarol Lloyd      The Black Studies Paradigm: The Making of Scholar ActivistsTerry Kershaw      The Afrocentric Idea in EducationMole. Kete Asante      Afrocentricity and the Arrangement of KnowledgeKathleen E. Bethel      Part 2: Theoretical AssessmentW.E.B. Du Bois and/as Africana Critical Theory: Pan-Africanism, Critical Marxism, and Male FeminismReiland Rabaka      A Theoretical Analysis of Persuasive Tactics Used by Frederick Douglass in “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro”Jason J. Thompson and Reynaldo Anderson      The Philosophy of the Black Power Movement Using Ntu as a Theoretical ConstructPaul Easterling      African American Intellectual History: Philosophy and EthosMalachi Crawford      Part 3: Critical AnalysisAfrocentricity and African PsychologyKevin Cokely      The Black Male Narrative: An Afrocentric AssessmentJames L. Conyers, Jr.      What Is Afrocentric? Applying Afrocentric Analysis to a Non-Fiction TextSandy Van Dyk      Part 4: Pan-Africanist ThoughtThe Return: Slave Castles and the African DiasporaTanya Y. Price      The Shebanization of KnowledgeMiriam Ma’at-Ka-Re Monges      Why Write “Black”? Reclaiming African Culture Resource Knowledges in Diasporic ContextsGeorge J. Sefa Dei      “There Was No Better Place to Go”? Quintard Taylor, Afrikancentricity, and the Historiography of the Afrikan Experience in the American WestAhati N.N. Toure      Mulattos, Freejacks, Cape Verdeans, Black Seminoles, and Others: Afrocentrisim and Mixed-Race PersonsRhett Jones      The Interaction Sphere of Nubia and Egypt: From the Old Kingdom to the Meroitic PeriodLarry Ross      About the Contributors      Index