Africana Cultures and Policy Studies

1. Introduction: Africana Cultures and Policy Studies
Zachery Williams

Part I. Public Policy Foundations and Culture Critiques

2. The Fields and Functions of African American Studies and Public Policy
Nathaniel Norment

3. A Law unto Themselves: Historical Consequences and Cultural Realities from the Neglect of Africana Studies in Policymaking Processes
Seneca Vaught

4. Framing the Discussion of Racism
Wornie Reed

Part II. Urban Culture and Public Policy

5. The Wire: Media Placement and Postindustrial Landscapes
Robert Smith, Debra Smith

6. Institutionalized Terror: A Social Systems Analysis of Police Brutality
Loretta Prater

7. African American Administration of Predominately Black Schools: Segregation or Emancipation in Omaha, NE
Tekla Ali Johnson, Pearl Ford, Greg Wiggan, Deborah Brown Quick

Part III. Gender and Policy Construction

8. Born to Rebel and Born to Excel: Black Religious Intellectuals, Benjamin E. Mays, and the Development of Black Male Leadership
Zachery Williams

9. 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
Greg Childs

10. The Policy of Dating: The Effect of Romantic Relationships on African American Adolescents
Kenyatta Phelps, Jennifer Goode, Kaarin Danielle Perkins, Renata Harden

11. Gender and Culture: The Shaping of British Colonial Educational Policy in West Africa
Tara Jabbaar-Gyambrah

Part IV. African/African Diasporan Culture, Immigration, and Policy

12. A History of Black Immigration into the United States and Canada with Culture and Policy Implications
Babacar M’Baye, Amoaba Gooden, Wendy Wilson-Fall

13. Speaking of Africa and Singing of Home: The Trope of Africa in African American Historiography
Tim Lake

Nyckelord: History, History of the Americas, US History, Modern History, Public Policy