This survey of methodology provides a framework for understanding Africana Studies. Correlating this book to research and writing in Africana Studies, helps to extend the perplexity, paradox, and parley of social science and humanistic research. This book attempts to answer, what is Africana Studies with reference to an interdisciplinary body of knowledge? Africana Studies is the global Pan-Africanist study of African phenomena interpreted from an Afrocentric perspective. Among those scholars who contribute to this interdisciplinary body of knowledge, perspective signals the commonality in the school of thought. This book offers general definitions and descriptions of the qualitative and quantitative research.
Acknowledgments Introduction Section I General Research Methods Chapter 1 Methods of Research Helen Walker Chapter 2 Publishing Qualitative Research Mary Lee Smith Section II Oral History Research Methods Chapter 3 Oral History as a Primary Resource in Educational Research Harriette McAdoo Chapter 4 The Undefining of Oral Tradition David William Cohen Chapter 5 Toward Theory and Method with the Jazz Oral History Project Ron Welburn Section III Multicultural and Race Studies Chapter 6 Race and Ideology: An Essay in Black Sociology Robert Staples Chapter 7 African American Scholarship and the Evolution of Multicultural Education James A. Banks Chapter 8 W. E. B. Du Bois and the Atlanta University Studies on the Negro Elliott M. Rudwick Chapter 9 Comparative Research Methodology: Cross-Cultural Studies Richard W. Brislin Section IV Autobiography and Biography and Research Methods Chapter 10 The Environment as Enemy in a Black Autobiography: Manchild in the Promised Land Houston A. Baker, Jr. Chapter 11 A New Method of Teaching Biography Fred A. Bennett Chapter 12 The Biographical Approach in American History Marion Dargan Chapter 13 Biography as an Instrument of Moral Instruction Robert Partin Section V Afrocentric Perspectives and Research Methods Chapter 14 The African-Centered Worldview toward a Paradigm for Social Work Mekada J. Graham Chapter 15 A Discourse on Black Studies: Liberating the Study of African People in the Western Academy Molefi Kete Asante Chapter 16 The Deep Structure of Culture: Relevance of Traditional African Culture in Contemporary Life Linda James Myers Chapter 17 The Four Corners of a Circle: Afrocentricity as a Model of Synthesis Ayele Bekerie Chapter 18 The Afrocentric Paradigm: Contours And Definitions Ama Mazama Chapter 19 Research Methods in Africana Studies Sheena Garrant Section VI Reflexive Qualitative Methods Chapter 20 Qualitative Research in Africana Studies Kelly Jacobs Chapter 21 The Essential Function and Value of Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods Sharoma Scurry-Graves Chapter 22 African Diaspora: Heuristics & Perspective within the Africana Studies Disciplinary Framework Ifetayo M. Flannery Chapter 23 The Negative Imagery of Hip Hop: A Brief Analysis Kevin B. Thompson Chapter 24 Research Paper: The Critical Need For Authentic African-Centered Paradigms in Today's Classroom Linda Burgess Chapter 25 An Historical Analysis of Access for African Americans into Institutions of Higher Education and the Emergence of Response Minority Access Initiatives Toya Conston, Patricia Rehak, Amber Mollhagen Chapter 26 Pedagogy, Intersection, and Research: A Case Study of Teaching Qualitative Research Methods in Africana Studies James L. Conyers, Jr., Ph.D. Chapter 27 Gendering Africana Studies: Toward a New Philosophical Orientation in Black Women Studies Valethia Watkins J.D., Ph.D. Index About the Contributors
