Includes bibliographical references and index.

African American achievement : using critical pedagogy to critique a plan intending to address educational disparities / Carol Lloyd -- The Black studies paradigm : the making of scholar activists / Terry Kershaw -- The Afrocentric idea in education / Molefi Kete Asante -- Afrocentricity and the arrangement of knowledge / Kathleen E. Bethel -- W.E.B. DuBois and/as Africana critical theory : pan Africanism, critical Marxism, and male feminism / Reiland Rabaka -- A theoretical analysis of persuasive tactics used by Frederick Douglass in "the meaning of July fourth for the negro" / Jason J. Thompson and Reynaldo Anderson -- The philosophy of the Black power movement using NTU as a theoretical construct / Paul Easterling -- African American intellectual history : philosophy and ethos / Malachi Crawford -- Afrocentricity and African psychology / Kevin Cokely -- The Black male narrative : an Afrocentric assessment / James L. Conyers, Jr. -- What is Afrocentric? : applying Afrocentric analysis to a non-fiction text / Sandy Van Dyk -- The return : slave castels and the African diaspora / Tanya Y. Price -- The shebanization of knowledge / Miriam Ma'at-ka-re monges -- Why write "Black"? : reclaiming African culture resource knowledges in diasporic contexts / George J. Sefa Dei -- There was no better place to go? : Quintard Taylor, Afrikancentricity, and the historiography of the afrikan experience in the American West -- Ahati N.N. Toure -- Mulattos, freejacks, Cape Verdeans, Black Seminoles, and others : Afrocentrisim and mixed-race persons / Rhett Jones -- The interaction sphere of Nubia and Egypt : from the old kingdom to the Meroitic period -- Larry Ross.