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The current major problem in African studies that Mohamed (2010/2012) [4] [5] identified is the inherited religious, Orientalist, colonial paradigm that European Africanists have preserved in present-day secularist, post-colonial, Anglophone African historiography. [4]
Black studies and Africana studies differ primarily in that Africana studies focuses on Africanity and the historical and cultural issues of Africa and its descendants, while Black studies was designed to deal with the uplift and development of the black (African-American) community in relationship to education and its "relevance" to the black ...
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience edited by Henry Louis Gates and Anthony Appiah (Basic Civitas Books 1999, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-19-517055-9) is a compendium of Africana studies including African studies and the "Pan-African diaspora" inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois' project of an Encyclopedia Africana.
James E. Turner (1940 – August 6, 2022) was an American Africana studies scholar. He was the founding director of the Cornell Africana Studies and Research Center.
The MSU Africana Library collection is served by two PhD Africanist librarians, more than 237,000 items, and a large annual budget. [7] The Library hosts the "African e-Journals Project," [8] a directory of journals about Africa and full-text of 11 African journals online.
The Africana Studies and Research Center (ASRC) at Cornell University is an academic unit devoted to the study of the global migrations and reconstruction of African peoples, as well as patterns of linkages to the African continent (and among the peoples of the African Diaspora).
The California Bill ACR-71 Africana studies programs led to success with the efforts of former NCBS member and president Shirley Weber. [ 8 ] Current NCBS board member and department chair of the Africana Studies program at California State University at Long Beach, Maulana Karenga is the founder of the Pan-African holiday Kwanzaa .
Marcia Chatelain (born 1979) is an American academic who serves as the Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2021, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History for her book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (2020), for which she also won the James Beard Award for Writing in 2022.