These essays critically examine the issue of race in college and professional sports, beginning with the affects of stereotypes on black female college athletes, and the self-handicapping of black male college athletes. Also discussed is the movement of colleges between NCAA designated conferences, and the economic impact and effects on academics for blacks. An essay on baseball focuses on changes in Brooklyn during the Jackie Robinson years, and another essay on how the Leland Giants became a symbol of racial pride. Other essayists discuss the use of American Indian mascots, the Jeremy Lin spectacle surrounding Asians in pro sports, the need to hire more NFL coaches of colour, and ideals of black male masculinity in boxing.

This work pursues to critically probe Black American Intellectualism and Culture in the organizational construct of intellectual studies; cultural studies; literary studies; and social thought. Accent has been placed on an interdisciplinary focus of examining the ethos and memory of Africana people. The intangible view of Africana people is reported and illustrated from an African American prism.
This study is an unconventional advance reviewing: history, narratives, biography, autobiography, and epistemology. As Africana scholars research society in the form of politics, business, social, education, political, and economic institutions - the retentive ideas of Africana values, mores, and folkways become imperative to examine events from an assembly of viewpoints. In fact, these variables provide a foundation for amassing query, that narrates and appraises Africana people.

Africology: An Interdisciplinary Study of Thought and Praxis provides students with diverse and thought-provoking readings that encourage them to examine Africana culture through the lenses of social science, humanities, and professional studies. The carefully selected readings in this volume features Afrocentric perspectives and support the study of the global Africana experience. The anthology begins with chapters that explore the interchange and migration of African people, nomenclature, methods, tools, and instruments used to evaluate and study Africana phenomena in higher education settings, and analyses of the religiosity of African Americans. Additional chapters are devoted to Black power studies, the position of African Americans in the U.S. economy following the passage of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments, and Black feminist thought. Students read about the psychological development of African American personality, Black athletics, the creation and importance of hip hop culture, and a discussion of criminal justice reform. Featuring principal research and thought leadership in the discipline, Africology is a valuable supplementary text for courses in ethnic studies, Africology, sociology, and any course that explores the Africana experience.

Music is an expressive voice of a culture, often more so than literature. While jazz and rap are musical genres popular among people of numerous racial and social backgrounds, they are truly important historically for their representation of and impact upon African American culture and traditions. Essays offer interdisciplinary study of jazz and rap as they relate to black culture in America. The essays are grouped under sections. One examines an Afrocentric approach to understanding jazz and rap; another, the history, culture, performers, instruments, and political role of jazz and rap. There are sections on the expressions of jazz in dance and literature; rap music as art, social commentary, and commodity; and the future. Each essay offers insight and thoughtful discourse on these popular musical styles and their roles within the black community and in American culture as a whole. References are included for each essay.