African Americans in Higher Education A Critical Study of Social and Philosophical Foundations of Africana Culture. This item is unavailable.African Americans in Higher Education A Critical Study of Social and Philosophical Foundations of Africana Culture

African Americans in Higher Education critically examines African Americans in higher education with an emphasis on social and philosophical foundations of Africana culture. The organizational structure of the volume is a critical interdisciplinary study, which examines the collection, interpretation, and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data in the field of higher education. Moreover, the intellectual history of Black education as an interdisciplinary body of knowledge postures unconventional methods of examining Africana phenomena. To date, there are not any single-authored or edited volumes of essays that attempt to examine the logical and conceptual ideas of the disciplinary matrix of Africana social and philosophical foundations of African Americans in higher education. This project offers an interdisciplinary lens within the matrix of Africana Studies to locate race and communication in place, space, and time. Therefore, the publication of an edited work of this nature affords readers a compilation of literary, historical, philosophical, and communicative essays that attempt to describe and evaluate the Black experience from an Afrocentric perspective.

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.