Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book offers a humanistic analysis of Africana musicology within a literary cannon to assess William Grant Still’s score, Troubled Island. It focuses on the recruitment, retention, and reference of African American male teachers and draws on developing an understanding of culture and identity. The book presents a sport and race analysis of African Americans and describes a quantitative assessment of examining the issue of implications of HIV prevention methods for women. It provides an exploratory examination of social science within the discipline of Africana Studies and discusses educational analysis of the public school system in New Orleans. The Afrocentric mode of education seeks to provide tools of liberation for people of African descent. Using the interdisciplinary matrix of Africana studies, scholars and students have secured space to raise alternative query regarding the cosmology, axiology, ontology, and epistemology of Africana phenomena.