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 assistant professor at Fayetteville State University and Africana Studies lecturer at San Francisco State University.

• DedicationAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Kasserian Ingera: Achieving Black Male Collegiate Success through AfrostructualInterventions by Dr. Vida A. RobertsonChapter 2: An Afrocentric and Nation of Islam Approach to Teacher Preparation at HistoricallyBlack Colleges and Universities by Abul Pitre, Tanya Hudson, and Jocelyn Smith-GrayChapter 3: African American Studies and African American History: Pedagogical Approaches toIntroductory Courses in Black Studies by Charmane M. PerryChapter 4: Epistemological Reparations: An Afrocentric Approach Within Black Studiesby Ifetayo M. FlanneryChapter 5: A Value-Added Module for Introduction to Africana Studies: Speaking in theDisciplines and Africana Market Value by Christel N. TempleChapter 6: Africana Studies, Urban/Afrocentric Education and Afrocentricity: An Innovativenessof Axiology by James L. Conyers Jr.Chapter 7: Making Gumbo: Africana Studies and HBCUs at the Crossroads byDonela WrightAbout the ContributorsIndex