Title: Africana history, culture and social policy : a collection of critical essays /
Authors: Conyers, James L.,; Barnett, Alva.
Publisher: International Scholars Publications,
Year: 1999
Subjects: American literature African American authors History and criticism; African Americans in literature; African Americans; African Americans Intellectual life; United States Civilization African influences.; United States Civilization
Contents: The role of the Black publisher as an agent for social change / Julius E. Thompson -- The Black clergy profession: an historical overview / James L. Conyers, Jr. -- The Black poet as historian / Joyce Pettis -- In the belly of the beast: field research in apartheid South Africa -- Wanjiru's search for self in Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's Minutes of glory / Owen Mordaunt -- Meridian: Alice Walker's Memory song / E. Frenzella DeLancey -- Toni Morrison's Jazz: a jam session in African culture and cosmology / Regina Jennings -- The Aset imperative: toward a revolutionary consciousness and a male ontology of Maat / Ahati N.N. Toure -- The epidemiological model for social workers / Alva Barnett -- Afrocentricity: an emerging paradigm in social work practice / Jerome H. Schiele -- Racial policy in transition / Charles P. Henry -- Focus and style representational roles of congressional Black and Hispanic caucus members / James Johnson and Philip Secret -- AIDS, Blacks and policy / Darryll Lewis -- Introducing Black studies: a critical examination of some textual materials / James Stewart -- Africology and the academy: essential texts, concepts, methods and new controversies / Victor Oguejiofor Okafor -- Black students/White campus, the pervasiveness of racism / Pat Hults -- A portrait of fictive kinship in African American students in two secondary science classrooms / Carol T. Mitchell.