center in every persons mind to illustrate how barbaric the human race can be to its own and to hopefully learn from such historic faux pas so they never happen

his own parents. This is only one aspect of the complexity of Africana studies, of course. The interdisciplinary field of study also

against their will, enslaved them, and then considered them inferior because they were slaves. This exquisitely twisted piece of self-serving reasoning enabled whites to justify continuing the practice.

of prison administrators, and the absence of proper order in prisons throughout several nations. He coined the term "penitentiary" as his ideal view for reform, presumably where convicts would

African Americans as compared to their white, Anglo-European counterparts in the United States. Research Questions The following research questions will be addressed in this study: 1.

Yet, this position does bring into question issues related to methodology. Methodology in anthropology varies. Many of the scientists live amongst the people they are studying. In some way, this

of power within these respective societies is both grand and far-reaching; that cultural communities with an unnatural presence of coercion and tyranny serve as the most powerful over common citizens

significance of time-consciousness in modern work (Low 111). On the other hand, Echeruo points out that around a hundred years or so ago, modernism was the fashion; but he

The inclusion of Africanisms means that the Bible becomes of less importance than the humanist principles of salvation and spiritual development. The contemporary Black church in America is

only imagine what sorts of changes our ancestors must have made in order to survive. and, in truth, we only have our imagination, in combination with a bit of science,