Invitation to Submit

The Universal Write Publications (UWP) Little Black Book Series is designed to publish books on methodologies that guide research regarding people of African descent. The books teach students, researchers (including community-based researchers), and instructors about culturally valid, humanizing, life-affirming, and liberatory methods and methodologies in the tradition of Africana Studies (also referred to as Africology, Black Studies, Pan-African Studies, etc.). Special emphasis is placed on how specific methods or methodologies are applied at the various stages of the research process, consisting of qualitative, quantitative, historiographic, and/or mixed research methods research. These texts will help readers understand, but more importantly, implement research methods or methodologies specifically designed to help explore, explain, describe, and advance African/Black communities. With specific key assumptions, steps, and illustrative examples, each volume guides systematic thinking about the African/Black world. 

The series publishes volumes that

• describe a theory, paradigm, data collection method (quantitative/qualitative) or framework designed to systematically guide and explain research about the realities of African/Black people;
• operationally define a particular method or methodology and its key assumptions, suppositions, or propositions;
• express clearly and step-by-step how the method or methodology is applied in research processes and how it may be used alongside qualitative, quantitative, historical, and other data-collection methods; and
• establish how the method or methodology may be used to produce knowledge or understanding that has the potential to advance communities of people of African descent.
• Are congruent with the Black/African/Africana Studies mission of producing culturally grounded, socially relevant, scholarship oriented toward the advancement of communities of people of African descent

UWP invites book manuscripts that take a how-to approach to describing, explaining, and illustrating data collection methods or frameworks of analysis for understanding and enhancing the realities of African/Black people. They should explain how a method or methodology is applied throughout the research process, which may also include institutional and/or community implementation(s). The books should be written so that a researcher can clearly follow them. The works provide examples of how methods or frameworks are applied in the research process and their utility in processes to empower communities of African descent. To submit a proposal please contact:

Serie McDougal, III PhD
Professor in the Department of Pan African Studies
California State University, Los Angeles
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