Presents a synthesis of the principal ideas in Afrocentric thinking. This book provides the reader with the major concepts, ideas, and theories helpful for informed judgments about the efficacy of the theory. It offers a call for resurgence grounded in a re-examination of African ideals.

It is at the cutting edge of this new paradigm with implications for all disciplines and fields of study. It will be essential reading for urban studies, philosophy, African and African American Studies, social work, sociology, political science, and communication.

Table of Contents.
1 Introduction.
2 Ama Mazama and Paradigmatic Discourse.
3 Afrocentricity: Notes on a Disciplinary Position.
4 In Search of an Afrocentric Historiography.
5 Kemetic Bases: The Africanness of Ancient Egypt.
6 The Afrocentric Idea in Education.
7 Sustaining a Relationship to Black Studies.
8 Afrocentricity and History.
9 The Black Nationalist Question.
10 Race, Brutality, and Hegemony.
11 Blackness as an Ethical Trope: Toward a Post Western Manifesto