The standard textbook that helped define Black Studies as an academic discipline, written by the founder of Kwanzaa and the Kawaida philosophy. Karenga lays out the field's scope — Black history, religion, social organization, politics, economics, and creative production — and its mission of cultural grounding and community service. Successive editions have kept it in use in African American Studies courses for four decades.
Author: Maulana Karenga · Original publisher: Kawaida Publications, 1982
