About this book
Research Methods in Africana Studies is a major contribution to the discipline of Africana studies and social science involving people of African descent in general. This textbook is the first of its kind, offering instruction on how to conduct culturally relevant critical research on Africana communities in the American context, in addition to the African diaspora. It contains a collection of the most widely used theories and paradigms designed for exploring, explaining, and advancing Africana communities through science. The relevance, strengths, and weaknesses of every major method of data collection are explained as they relate to the lived experiences of the Black world. It stands alone as the only textbook that details empirical methods in the service of the collective advancement of Africana peoples.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface: Speak to the Posterity
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Africana Studies and the Science of Knowing
- 2. Methodology in Africana Studies Research
- 3. Ethics in Research
- 4. Research Design
- 5. Choosing a Topic, Writing a Question, Reviewing the Literature
- 6. Measuring Social Reality
- 7. Sampling Procedures
- 8. Non-Reactive Methods
- 9. Scales and Indexes
- 10. Survey Design: Asking Questions
- 11. Experimental Design
- 12. Qualitative Field Research and Data Analysis
- 13. Quantitative Data Analysis
- Glossary
- Works Cited
- Index
