Known variously as African studies, black studies, African American studies, Afro-American studies, and Africology, the academic study of the African diaspora a

The systematic study of the Africana/Black experience emerged in universities in the USA in the late 1960s. As an outgrowth of the Civil Rights and Black Consci

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There is an ongoing debate as to whether African American Studies is a discipline, or multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary field. Some scholars assert that Af

A long overdue look at the central role Black studies has played within academic life and culture, this volume explains how, as a truly transdisciplinary field,