Clovis E. Semmes is Professor Emeritus of African-American Studies at Eastern Michigan University, USA and Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA.

• Introduction: The End of Black Studies: Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Concerns1. The End of Black Studies and the Closing of Oppositional Discourse2. Minority Status and the Problem of Legitimacy3. Religion and the Challenge of Afrocentric Thought4. Existential Sociology or the Sociology of Group Survival , Elevation, and Liberation5. Foundations in Africana Studies: Revisiting Negro Digest/Black World, 1961-1976.6. The Normative Assault on Black Studies7. Entrepreneur of Health: Dick Gregory, Black Consciousness, and the Human Potential Movement8. E. Franklin Frazier’s Theory of the Black Family: Vindication and Sociological InsightConclusions: Toward the End of Black Studies

Clovis E. Semmes is Professor Emeritus of African-American Studies at Eastern Michigan University, USA and Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA.

• Introduction: The End of Black Studies: Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Concerns1. The End of Black Studies and the Closing of Oppositional Discourse2. Minority Status and the Problem of Legitimacy3. Religion and the Challenge of Afrocentric Thought4. Existential Sociology or the Sociology of Group Survival , Elevation, and Liberation5. Foundations in Africana Studies: Revisiting Negro Digest/Black World, 1961-1976.6. The Normative Assault on Black Studies7. Entrepreneur of Health: Dick Gregory, Black Consciousness, and the Human Potential Movement8. E. Franklin Frazier’s Theory of the Black Family: Vindication and Sociological InsightConclusions: Toward the End of Black Studies

Clovis E. Semmes is Professor Emeritus of African-American Studies at Eastern Michigan University, USA and Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA.

• Introduction: The End of Black Studies: Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Concerns1. The End of Black Studies and the Closing of Oppositional Discourse2. Minority Status and the Problem of Legitimacy3. Religion and the Challenge of Afrocentric Thought4. Existential Sociology or the Sociology of Group Survival , Elevation, and Liberation5. Foundations in Africana Studies: Revisiting Negro Digest/Black World, 1961-1976.6. The Normative Assault on Black Studies7. Entrepreneur of Health: Dick Gregory, Black Consciousness, and the Human Potential Movement8. E. Franklin Frazier’s Theory of the Black Family: Vindication and Sociological InsightConclusions: Toward the End of Black Studies