African Americans in Higher Education A Critical Study of Social and Philosophical Foundations of Africana Culture

While there is a wealth of scholarship on Africana Education, no single volume has examined the roles of such important topics as Black Male Identity, Hip Hop Culture, Adult Learners, Leadership at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Critical Black Pedagogy, among others.

This book critically examines African Americans in higher education, with an emphasis on the social and philosophical foundations of Africana culture. This is a critical interdisciplinary study, one which explores the collection, interpretation, and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data in the field of higher education.

To date, there are not any single-authored or edited collections that attempt to research the logical and conceptual ideas of the disciplinary matrix of Africana social and philosophical foundations of African Americans in higher education. Therefore, this volume provides readers with a compilation of literary, historical, philosophical, and communicative essays that describe and evaluate the Black experience from an Afrocentric perspective for the first time. It is required reading in a wide range of African American Studies courses.

Perfect for courses such as: African American Social and Philosophical Foundations | African American Studies | African Nationalist Thought | History of Black Education

James L. Conyers, Jr., (Ph.D. in African American Studies, Temple University) is Director of the African American Studies Program, Director of the Center for African American Culture and University Professor of African American Studies at the University of Houston. He is the author or editor of thirty-five books; serves on various editorial boards; and edits two book series.

Crystal Edwards (Ph.D. in Africology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) a Visiting Scholar in the African American Studies Program at the University of Houston. Her research and teaching interests include: Intersectional identities, lived experiences of Black women and girls, Black girls in educational settings, Microaggressions, Black Feminist Theory and Africana frameworks.

Dr. Kevin Thompson is the Program Manager and Adjunct Professor for the African American Studies Program at the University of Houston. His research interests include African American male educational experiences within urban and rural environments, African American male teacher attrition, and Afrocentric pedagogical practices.