Afrocentric Innovations in Higher Education

Vida A. Robertson is associate professor of English and humanities and serves as the Director of the Center for Critical Race Studies at the University of Houston-Downtown. Abul Pitre is chair and professor of Africana Studies at San Francisco State University. Jocelyn D. Smith-Gray is associate professor at Fayetteville State University and Africana Studies lecturer at San Francisco State University.

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Kasserian Ingera: Achieving Black Male Collegiate Success through Afrostructual

Interventions by Dr. Vida A. Robertson

Chapter 2: An Afrocentric and Nation of Islam Approach to Teacher Preparation at Historically

Black Colleges and Universities by Abul Pitre, Tanya Hudson, and Jocelyn Smith-Gray

Chapter 3: African American Studies and African American History: Pedagogical Approaches to

Introductory Courses in Black Studies by Charmane M. Perry

Chapter 4: Epistemological Reparations: An Afrocentric Approach Within Black Studies

by Ifetayo M. Flannery

Chapter 5: A Value-Added Module for Introduction to Africana Studies: Speaking in the

Disciplines and Africana Market Value by Christel N. Temple

Chapter 6: Africana Studies, Urban/Afrocentric Education and Afrocentricity: An Innovativeness

of Axiology by James L. Conyers Jr.

Chapter 7: Making Gumbo: Africana Studies and HBCUs at the Crossroads byDonela Wright

About the Contributors

Index