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