This article frames the focus of this special Africana studies issue of Critical Sociology, discussing its theoretical and epistemological necessity for the discipline, its potential for critically informing inquiry within the discipline with respect to Africana social phenomena and human experience, the challenges it poses for the traditional conduct of sociological inquiry, and what the particular pieces selected for this issue contribute to each of these.
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