Africana Studies: A Disciplinary Quest for Both Theory and Method

Known variously as African studies, black studies, African American studies, Afro-American studies, and Africology, the academic study of the African diaspora as a holistic discipline is a relatively new phenomenon. University programs have been created with reference to a disciplinary matrix, retarding the development of appropriate theory and methods throughout Africana studies. Fifteen leaders in the field of Africana studies provide the conceptual framework for establishing the field as a mature discipline. The focus is on four basic areas: administration and organizational structure; disciplinary matrix; Africana womanism; and cultural aesthetics. The work examines both the theory and the method of scholars in African and African-diaspora studies.

Author: James L. Conyers
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 01/27/2005
Pages: 247
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.40w x 0.57d
ISBN13: 9780786423040
ISBN10: 0786423048
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Schools | Levels | Higher
- Social Science | Minority Studies
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies

About the Author
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.