This book contains a collection of articles written by Africana Studies scholars: Kaila Story, De Reef Jamision, Karanja Carrol, Dawn Elissa Fischer, Serie Mc Dougal, Justin Gammage, Marquita Gammage, and Michael Tillotson. These works explore racial and class complacency, the differences in worldview between African and European peoples, and the enduring role and function of theories and paradigms in human inquiry and their specific functions in the discipline of Africana Studies among other topics.