Africana cultures and policy studies : scholarship and the transformation of public policy / edited by Zachery Williams.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Africana Cultures and Policy Studies / Zachery Williams -- Pt. 1. Public Policy Foundations and Culture Critiques -- 1. The Fields and Functions of African American Studies and Public Policy / Nathaniel Norment, Jr. -- 2. A Law unto Themselves: Historical Consequences and Cultural Realities from the Neglect of Africana Studies in Policymaking Processes / Seneca Vaught -- 3. Framing the Discussion of Racism / Wornie Reed -- Pt. II. Urban Culture and Public Policy -- 4. The Wire: Media Placement and Postindustrial Landscapes / Robert Smith and Debra Smith -- 5. Institutionalized Terror: A Social Systems Analysis of Police Brutality / Loretta Prater -- 6. African American Administration of Predominately Black Schools: Segregation or Emancipation in Omaha, NE / Tekla Ali Johnson, Pearl Ford, Greg Wiggan and Deborah Brown Quick -- Pt. III. Gender and Policy Construction -- 7. Born to Rebel and Born to Excel: Black Religious Intellectuals, Benjamin E. Mays, and the Development of Black Male Leadership / Zachery Williams -- 8. 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 -- 9. The Policy of Dating: The Effect of Romantic Relationships on African American Adolescents / Kenyatta Phelps, Jennifer Goode, Kaarin Danielle Perkins and Renata Harden -- 10. Gender and Culture: The Shaping of British Colonial Educational Policy in West Africa / Tara Jabbaar-Gyambrah -- Pt. IV. African/African Diasporan Culture, Immigration, and Policy -- 11. A History of Black Immigration into the United States and Canada with Culture and Policy Implications / Babacar M'Baye, Amoaba Gooden and Wendy Wilson-Fall -- 12. Speaking of Africa and Singing of Home: The Trope of Africa in African American Historiography / Tim Lake -- App. ACPSI Proposal for Pan-African Studies CommUniversity.