ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies the academic field and discipline of Africana Studies as a logical and compelling site for generating normative theory capable of critically assessing and integrating thinkers as representative of what Cedric Robinson has called "the Black Radical Tradition". It discusses the current sociopolitical context out of which both the Africana Studies movement in the United States and the "African Renaissance" movement in South Africa and across the African continent have emerged, including the framing ideas of Sobukwe and Biko. The chapter presents the normative assumptions of what the author characterizes as "Disciplinary Africana Studies" and identifies the ongoing "African World History Project" of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilization as one model for operationalizing these assumptions. It concludes with the relationship between Africana Studies, African-centered historiography, and education (curriculum, instruction, and assessment).
