Central ideas and critical information in African American history, religion, social organization, politics, economics, art, literature, music and psychology are discussed in this comprehensive text by Dr. Maulana Karenga enriching our understanding of the African American initative and experience.

In this collection of essays Dr. Maulana Karenga provides us with perspectives and portraits of history including: Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, Hon. Marcus Garvey, Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, Dr. Martin Luther King, Min. Malcolm X, Hon. Elijah Muhammad, and Mrs. Rosa Parks. In addition, he offers insightful analyses on major social issues of our time from a Kawaida perspective.

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In this unique collection of commentaries on critical issues of our time, Dr. Karenga has again demonstrated his masterful ability to turn the complex into the conversational without sacrificing the quality of his contentions. He offers refreshing and insightful analyses from an African-centered standpoint and brings forth evidence of the rich resource of African culture, both ancient and modern, Continental and Diasporan. Using Kawaida philosophy as a foundation and frame-work, he is meticulously concerned with providing a language and logic of liberation, ethical insights into every major issue, and making a definitive contribution to the Kawaida project of “cultural revolution, radical social change and bringing good in the world.” In these commentaries, Professor Karenga not only exhibits an intellect which is insightful, creative and wide-ranging, but also a profound personal commit-ment to his subject and the use of his knowledge in the interest of African and human good and the good of the world.

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DR. MAULANA KARENGA is professor of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach. An activist-scholar of national and international recognition, Dr. Karenga has played a significant role in Black intellectual and political culture since the 60’s and has lectured widely at various national and international venues on the life and struggles of African peoples. He is chair of the Organization Us and the National Association of Kawaida Organizations and executive director of the Kawaida Institute of Pan-African Studies. Also, he is the creator of the pan-African cultural holiday Kwanzaa and author of numerous scholarly articles and books, including: Introduction to Black Studies; Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture; Kawaida: A Communitarian African Philosophy; Odu Ifa: The Ethical Teachings; Selections From The Husia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient Egypt; and Maat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African Ethics. Having earned Ph.D.’s in social ethics and in political science, his fields of teaching and research within Africana Studies are: Africana Studies theory and history; ancient Egyptian (Maatian) ethics; ancient Yoruba (Ifa) ethics; Africana philosophy; African American intellectual history; ethnic relations and the socio-ethical thought of Malcolm X. He is currently writing a book on Malcolm X and the Critique of Domination: An Ethics of Liberation. www.maulanakarenga.org

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Dr. Maulana Karenga is professor of Africana Studies at California State University, Long Beach. An activist-intellectual of national and international recognition, he is the recipient of numerous awards for scholarship, leadership and contribution to the discipline of Black Studies. Also, he is the creator of the pan-African cultural holiday Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba (The Seven Principles) and the author of numerous books including: Kawaida and Questions of Life and Struggle, Maat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African Ethics, Kwanzaa: A

Celebration of Family, Community and Culture, Selections From The Husia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient Egypt; and Odu Ifa: The Ethical Teachings.

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“Singularly impressive, this new Fourth Edition of the Introduction adds immensely to the dynamic narrative of Black Studies. Professor Maulana Karenga has expanded an already widely used book to cover new intellectual terrain in this always-evolving field. Challenging and comprehensive, the highly regarded author has once again delivered a brilliantly conceived and academically rigorous work that is sure to be a classic.” Molefi Kete Asante, Professor

department of African American Studiestemple university, Author of The History of Africa

“In this 4th edition of Introduction to Black Studies, Professor Karenga has again produced a commendable and impressive text. With his customary and meticulous scholarship, he has continued critical attention to developing a comprehensive structure for the discipline which is respectfully inclusive of Black Women’s Studies and other areas of Black/Africana Studies. His work is essential for classroom study and for participation in conversations with Black Studies scholars throughout Africa and the Diaspora.

Dorothy Randall Tsuruta, Professor and chairdepartment of Africana Studies, San francisco State university

Author of Elmer McLaughlin: A Black Canon (forthcoming) Professor Maulana Karenga’s book continues to be the leading text in Black Studies for one very good reason: it is the best, most comprehensive and up-to-date work available. It is also an excellent supplement for courses in related fields.

Charles P. Henry, Professor and H. Michael and Jeanne Williams chairdepartment of African American Studies, university of california, Berkeley

Author of The Obama Phenomenon: Towards a Multicultural Democracy (forthcoming) Dr. Maulana Karenga, a leading philosopher and scholar in the field of Africana Studies, again contributes to the expansion of the discipline with the revised fourth edition of Introduction to Black Studies. A definitive and brilliant work, Professor Karenga offers new insights to enrich our understanding of the core areas of Black Studies and provides an in-depth analysis of the significance, growth and expansion of the field in the past four decades. This exceptional, comprehensive work provides the essential foundation and conceptual framework for understanding the discipline and is a must read, seminal text for students as they begin their scholarly investigations of Black Studies.

Patricia Reid-Merritt, Professor, coordinator Africana Studiesthe richard Stockton college of new Jersey

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A beautifully illustrated and definitive text on the origins, symbols, principals and practice of Kwanzaa. Written by the creator of the holiday, Dr. Maulana Karenga, this books provides a thorough understanding of Kwanzaa, its views and values, its origins and cultural background in Continental African harvest festivals, its African American development in the African American Freedom Movement of the 1960s and its cultural meaning to millions of Africans who celebrate it throughout the world African community.

Dr. Molefi Asante captures the intellectual ideas of the distinguished scholar, Cheikh Anta Diop, a central figure in African-centered scholarship whose seminal works in ancient Egyptian Studies laid the foundation for an Afrocentric approach to the field.

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CHEIKH ANTA DIOP: AN INTELLECTUAL PORTRAITMOLEFI KETE ASANTE

This volume is a lucid and essential contri-bution to our critical understanding of theintellectual and practical work of CheikhAnta Diop. Professor Asante identifies andclarifies the key components, concerns andevolutionary contours in Diopian thoughtand weaves them into a richly textured pattern and composite portrait of this dis-tinguished scholar of astounding eruditionand extraordinary insight. Tracing Diop’sintellectual and political evolution, ProfessorAsante opens critical vistas on his multi-disciplinary competence and approach andhis constant concern with putting know-ledge and science in the service of the dig-nity and development of Africa. Moreover,he reaffirms Diop’s towering position as afounding figure in African-centered schol-arship and his expansive and enduring influence in the world African community.Professor Asante presents an engagingsynthesis of well-placed narrative, careful

reasoning and interpretive insight. And hehas written in a style accessible to the general reader and also of equal value tothe scholar interested in African and generalintellectual history.

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Professor Asante’s intellectual portrait ofCheikh Anta Diop, one of the first inEnglish, captures the complex intellectualideas of this great scholar and probes the meaning of his work to the continentand the diaspora. It is a gem for seriousintellectuals and the ordinary reader. It issimply fascinating and a true pioneeringmasterpiece worthy of effusive praise bytrue Pan-Africanist and general scholars.

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Diaspora StudiesDirector, Graduate Studies and Admissions

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DR. MOLEFI KETE ASANTE is Professor of African American Studiesat Temple University and the founding theorist of Afrocentricity,explicated in his seminal work The Afrocentric Idea. Considered oneof the most distinguished and prolific contemporary scholars,Professor Asante is an Imhotepian scholar with a wide intellectualrange, having written over 300 hundred articles and published 61books. Among his most recent books are the Handbook of BlackStudies (2006), co-edited with Maulana Karenga; Encyclopedia of BlackStudies (2004), co-edited with Ama Mazama; Race, Rhetoric, andIdentity: The Architecton of Soul (2005); Erasing Racism: The Survival ofthe American Nation (2003); Ancient Egyptian Philosophers (2003); Scattered to the Wind(2002); Customs and Culture of Modern Egypt (2002); and The Painful Demise of Eurocentrism(1999). The second edition of his high school text, African American History: Journey ofLiberation (2001), is used widely throughout North America and his Afrocentric theory andmethodology have a worldwide range and impact.

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