Africana Cultures and Policy Studies

PART I: PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATIONS AND CULTURE CRITIQUES The Field and Function of African American Studies and Public Policy; N.Norment A Law Unto Themselves: Historical Consequences and Cultural Realities from the Neglect of Africana Studies in Policy-Making; S.Vaught Framing the Discussion of Racism; W.Reed PART II: URBAN CULTURE AND PUBLIC POLICY The Wire: Media Placement and Post-Industrial Landscapes; R.Smith & D.Smith Institutionalized Terror: A Social Systems Analysis of Police Brutality; Loretta Prater African American Administration of Predominately Black Schools: Segregation or Emancipation in Omaha, NE; T.A.Johnson et al. PART III: GENDER AND POLICY CONSTRUCTION Born to Rebel and Born to Excel: Black Religious Intellectuals, Benjamin E. Mays, and the Development of Black Male Leadership; Z.Williams America Has the Laws and Material Resources to Ensure Justice for All: Historical Trajectory of Legal Critique and Experiential Voice in Black Women's Political Activism; G.Childs The Policy of Dating: The Effect of Romantic Relationships on African American Adolescents; K.Phelps et al. Gender and Culture: The Shaping of British Colonial Educational Policy in West Africa; T.Jabbaar-Gyambrah PART IV: AFRICAN/AFRICAN DIASPORAN CULTURE, IMMIGRATION, AND POLICY A History of Black Immigrations into the United States and Canada with Culture and Policy Implications; B.M'aye et al. Speaking of Africa and Singing of Home: The Trope of Africa in African American Historiography; T.Lake

ZACHERY WILLIAMS is an Assistant Professor of African American History at the University of Akron, USA.