Africana Studies

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.

“Explores the development of theory and methodology in establishing African and African-diaspora studies as an academic discipline...essential for Africana collections”—American Libraries.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      A Note to the Reader      Preface      Part 1: Administration and Organizational Structure in Africana Studies1. Black Studies: An Overview      2. Notes on Administration of Africana Studies Departments and Programs      3. Black Studies: A New Story      4. Administration of African American Studies at Black Colleges      5. “Can the Big Dog Run?” Developing African American Studies at the University of Georgia      6. Africology: Building an Academic Discipline      Part 2: Disciplinary Matrix and Analysis7. Afrocentricity and the Quest for Method      8. Africana Studies and Epistemology: A Discourse in the Sociology of Knowledge      9. Reaching for Higher Ground: Toward an Understanding of Black/Africana Studies      10. African American Studies: Locating a Niche in the Public Sphere of Higher Eucation      Part 3: Africana Womanism11. Womanist Issues in Black Studies: Towards Integrating Africana Womanism into Africana Studies      12. Black Women, Feminism, and Black Liberation      13. Feminism or Womanism? A Black Woman Defining Self      14. On the Myth of Male Supremacy: Adam and Eve and the Imperative of a New African-centered Epistemology of Gender      Part 4: Cultural Aesthetics15. Culture, Language, and Symbols in Africana Studies: An Etymological Analysis      16. The Black poet in Mississippi, 1990–1980      About the Contributors      Index