ABSTRACT
Given the well overdue attention in the American academy to global studies, before ending this subdivision on historical trends and contextualized biographies, I would be remiss not to mention the internationalization of the history of black sociological thought in the United States. This will allow me to both critique trends and traditions in the sociological study of Blacks in the United States and to point to future areas of research when it comes to African diasporic sociological thought. I attempt to initiate this vast undertaking regarding through sketching some key aspects of what I call the history of African Diasporic Sociological Thought. In my opinion, African Diasporic sociological thought included study of African descent sociologically oriented scholars and the conceptualizations of African Diasporic identities, institutions, communities, systems, population fl ows, movements, societies, and global regions. In my perspective, African diasporic nations and transnational experiences includes the United States and within as well as outside the continent of Africa when it comes to populations crossing national boundaries and residing between boundaries as ethno-regional communities such as tribes.
