James Lee Conyers

Sociology for the Seventies: A Contemporary Perspective

Black Elected Officials: A Study of Black Americans Holding Governmental Office

Charles H. Wesley: The Intellectual Tradition of a Black Historian

The Evolution of African American Studies: A Descriptive and Evaluative Analysis of Selected African American Studies Departments and Programs

Black American Intellectualism and Culture: A Social Study of African American Social and Political Thought

African American Sociology: A Social Study of the Pan-African Diaspora

Black Cultures and Race Relations

Black Lives : Essays in African American Biography

Engines of the Black Power Movement: Essays on the Influence of Civil Rights Actions, Arts, And Islam

The decade of the 1960s was an era of protest in America, and strides toward racial equality were among the most profound effects of the challenges to America's status quo. But have civil rights for African Americans been furthered, or even maintained, in the four decades since the Civil Rights move...

Africana Studies: A Disciplinary Quest for Both Theory and Method

Known variously as African studies, black studies, African American studies, Afro-American studies, and Africology, the academic study of the African diaspora as a holistic discipline is a relatively new phenomenon. University programs have been created with reference to a disciplinary matrix, retar...

Racial Structure and Radical Politics in the African Diaspora (Africana Studies)

This is a must read book for anyone interested in the areas of racial theory and racial relations, multicultural and polarized religions, and the making of African personality and culture. In keeping with earlier volumes in the series, it emphasizes the cross-fertilization of Africa and the world. ...

Law, Culture, and Africana Studies

Ever since the first contacts between Europe and Africa, African people have been confined to the fringes of Eurocentric experience in the Western mind. Much of what we have studied in African history and culture, or literature and linguistics, or politics and economics, has been orchestrated from ...

Malcolm X: An Historical Reader

Much has been written on the life and work of Malcolm X, one of the most important Black leaders of the twentieth century. Editors Conyers and Smallwood have assembled an impressive array of contributors whose works reflect their expertise in the fields of history, sociology, social work, religion, ...