why does africana studies emphasize a culturally relevant and solutionoriented framework for studying black people and communities how does such a framework aid our understanding of the city and the activities and existences within it

These essays are meant to demonstrate your intellectual engagement and reflections of the reading material. Please DO NOT turn in a summary of the readings, instead offer YOUR analyses of the readings and consider how their arguments relate to your own thinking, class discussions, as well as the debates and discourses of the larger society. Essays must be 2-3 pages in length, double-spaced, with 12-point font, and 1-inch margins. Please do not manipulate font size, spacing, or margins and be sure to proofread your work before you turn it in.