Introduction -- Ama Mazama and paradigmatic discourse -- Afrocentricity: notes on a disciplinary position -- In search of an afrocentric historiography -- Kemetic bases: the Africanness of ancient Egypt -- The afrocentric idea in education -- Sustaining a relationship to black studies -- Afrocentricity and history -- The black nationalist question -- Race, brutality, and hegemony -- Blackness as an ethical troupe: toward a post-western manifesto.