Africana Cultures and Policy Studies: Scholarship and the Transformation of Public Policy

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Africana Cultures and Policy Studies....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
The Fields and Functions of African American Studies and Public Policy....Pages 15-31
A Law unto Themselves: Historical Consequences and Cultural Realities from the Neglect of Africana Studies in Policymaking Processes....Pages 33-54
Framing the Discussion of Racism....Pages 55-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
The Wire: Media Placement and Postindustrial Landscapes....Pages 73-93
Institutionalized Terror: A Social Systems Analysis of Police Brutality....Pages 95-111
African American Administration of Predominately Black Schools: Segregation or Emancipation in Omaha, NE....Pages 113-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Born to Rebel and Born to Excel: Black Religious Intellectuals, Benjamin E. Mays, and the Development of Black Male Leadership....Pages 133-156
America Has the Laws and Material Resources to Insure Justice for All: Historical Trajectory of Legal Critique and Experiential Voice in Black Women’s Political Activism....Pages 157-175
The Policy of Dating: The Effect of Romantic Relationships on African American Adolescents....Pages 177-202
Gender and Culture: The Shaping of British Colonial Educational Policy in West Africa....Pages 203-216
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
A History of Black Immigration into the United States and Canada with Culture and Policy Implications....Pages 219-246
Speaking of Africa and Singing of Home: The Trope of Africa in African American Historiography....Pages 247-260
Back Matter....Pages 261-281