Dr. Karanja Keita Carroll

Select Publications:
Book Review of Not Only the Master’s Tools:  African American Studies in Theory and Practice, edited by Lewis Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon. Boulder:; Paradigm Publishers. Journal of Pan African Studies, 1.4 (2006): 64-69.

Forthcoming Publications:
“Africana Studies & Research Methodology: Revisiting the Centrality of the Afrikan Worldview,” Journal of Pan African Studies, Spring 2008.

Works in Progress:
“Pedagogy and Teaching in Africana Studies.”

“A Short History of Black Studies at the State University of New York – New Paltz.”

Research Interests:

• Africana/Black Studies Academic & Disciplinary Structure
• Intellectual History of Africana/Black Studies
• Theory Building in Africana/Black Studies
• Africana Intellectual Thought;
• Afrikan/Black Psychology
• Afrikan-Centered Social Theory
• Afrikan-Centered Theory & Methodology

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (1978) Temple University – History (concentration in Brazil & the Caribbean)

Select Publications:
Book Review of Samba: Resistance in Motion, by Barbara Browning.  International Journal of African Historical Studies, 30.2 (1997):  412-414.
“Out of the Shadows:  Black and Brown Struggles for Recognition and Dignity in Brazil, 1964-1985,” Journal of Black Studies 19.4 (1989):  394-410.
“Reflections on Blacks in Contemporary Brazilian Popular Culture in the 1980s,” Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 7 (1988): 213-226.
“Cuba in Africa: 1960-1985,” Afro-Hispanic Review, 5.1-3 (1986): 31-36.

Research Interests:

• Latin America & the Caribbean
• Brazil Race Relations - 19th – 20th Century
• Black contributions to the Socio/Political Development of Latin America (Columbia-Cuba-Venezuela-Brazil-Ecuador-Peru).
• Cuba and the Liberation of Southern Africa (1975-1988).
• The new scramble for Africa – (1961-2004).
• Congo DP & Rwanda – which way for the future.
• A New Genocide in the World: Chad-the Sudan.
• The Second Reconstruction in America – Brown to Reason – 1954-1988.
• The resurgence of White Racism against Blacks (1988-present).
• U.S. Presidents and Black Americans – Eisenhower to George W. Bush.

Dr. Margaret Wade-Lewis

Select Publications:
Lorenzo Dow Turner:  Father of Gullah Studies.  Columbia:  University of South Carolina Press, 2007.
Lorenzo Turner:  First African American Linguist.  Occasional Paper #2.  Philadelphia:  Temple University, Institute for African and African American Affairs.
“The Impact of the Turner/Herskovits Connection on Anthropology and Linguistics,” Dialectical Anthropology, 17 (November, 1992): 391-412.
“Beryl Loftman Bailey:  Africanist Woman Linguist in New York State,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 17.1 (Spring, 1993): 7-15.
“The Status of Semantic Items from African Roots in English,” The Black Scholar, 23.2 (Winter/Spring, 1993): 26-36.
“Lorenzo Dow Turner:  Beyond Gullah Studies,” Dialectical Anthropology, 26. 2001: 235-266.
“Mark Hanna Watkins: African American Linguistic Anthropologists,” Histories of Anthropology Annual. I. Regna Darnell and Frederick W. Gleach, eds. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005: 181-218.
“I Remember Rosa Parks: The Impact of Segregation,” The Black Scholar.  Special Issue on Black Intellectual Currents, 35.4 (Winter, 2006): 1-12.

Forthcoming Publications:
Bibliographic Essays:  “Joseph Applegate,” “Beryl Bailey,” “Raleigh Morgan,” “Lorenzo Dow Turner,” “Mark Hanna Watkins,” and “Arthur K. Spears,” African American National Biography.  Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ed. (Forthcoming Oxford University Press, 2008).

Research Interests:

• History of Blacks in American Linguistics
• Black English Studies
• Gullah and Creole Studies
• Contemporary Black Literature (U. S. and Caribbean)
• Black Women’s Literature
• Black Women’s Studies

Dr. A.J. William-Myers

Professor
Ph.D. (1978) University of California at Los Angeles – History (concentration in Africa)

Select Publications:
On the Morning Tide:  African American, History & Methodology in the Historical Ebb & Flow of Hudson River Society.  Trenton:  Africa World Press, 2003.
Destructive Impulses:  An Examination of an American Secret in Race Relations – White Violence.  Lanham:  University Press of America, 1995.
Long Hammering: Essays on the Forging of an African American Presence in the Hudson River Valley to the Early Twentieth Century.  Trenton:  Africa World Press, 1994.
 “Out of the Shadows: African Descendants – Revolutionary Combatants in the Hudson River Valley;  A Preliminary Sketch,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 31.1 (January, 2007):  91-110.
“Some Notes on the Extent of New York City's Involvement in the Underground Railroad,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 29.2 (July, 2005): 73-82.
Book Review of Mighty Change, Tall Within; Black Identity in the Hudson Valley.  Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, (January, 2004):  99-100.
“The Underground Railroad in the Hudson River Valley: A Succinct Historical Composite,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 27.1 (January, 2003):  55-73.
“Slavery, Rebellion, and Revolution in the Americas: A Historical Scenario on the Theses of Genovese and Others,” Journal of Black Studies, 3.4 (1996):  381-400.

Forthcoming Publications:
“Contested Ground: Slavery, Land Alienation and the Making of New York:  A Microcosm of the American Story” in Journal of Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, Winter ’08.

Research Interests:

• Africa and the African Diaspora
• Deciphering patterns of American Racism
• Racism and the white psyche
• Black men/white men dynamics
• Black men/white women: a hidden secret in racism
• Black incarceration fueled by white insecurity/psychic flaw
• The Impact of Africa on Europe