Africana History, Culture and Social Policy A Collection of Critical Essays

by Conyers, James L., Jr.; Barnett, Alva; Thompson, Julius E.; Pettis, Joyce; Mordaunt, Owen; Delancey, E Frenzella; Jennings, Regina; Toure, Ahati N.N.; Schiele, Jerome H.; Henry, Charles P.; Johnson, James; Secret, Philip; Lewis, Darryll; Stewart, James; O

• ISBN13: 9781573092104
• ISBN10: 157309210X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: International Scholars Publications

Summary

In this collection of compelling essays, scholars critically examine the history, culture, and social policies that surround the African Diaspora and explore how these have shaped the experiences of African-Americans today.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
The Role of the Black Publisher as an Agent for Social Change	p. 1
The Black Clergy Profession: An Historical Overview	p. 48
The Black Poet as Historian	p. 76
In the Belly of the Beast: Field Research in Apartheid South Africa	p. 95
Wanjiru's Search for Self in Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's Minutes of Glory	p. 115
Meridian: Alice Walker's Memory Song	p. 127
Toni Morrison's Jazz: A Jam Session in African Culture and Cosmology	p. 149
The Aset Imperative: Toward a Revolutionary Consciousness and a Male Ontology of Maat	p. 172
The Epidemiological Model for Social Workers	p. 185
Afrocentricity: An Emerging Paradigm in Social Work Practice	p. 199
Racial Policy in Transition	p. 224
Focus and Style Representational Roles of Congressional Black and Hispanic Caucus Members	p. 251
Aids, Blacks and Policy	p. 283
Introducing Black Studies: A Critical Examination of Some Textual Materials	p. 309
Africology and the Academy: Essential Texts, Concepts, Methods and New Controversies	p. 327
Black Students/White Campus, the Pervasiveness of Racism	p. 349
A Portrait of Fictive Kinship in African American Students in Two Secondary Science Classrooms	p. 371
Index	p. 401
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