There's No Place Like "Home": Mining the Theoretical Terrain of Black Women's Studies, Black Queer Studies and Black Studies (Essay)

"At the turn of the century, DuBois initiated and carried out his research both in Philadelphia and Atlanta with the expressed purpose and intent of documenting life and culture, thereby improving the life and culture of African Americans. By following his lead and bringing rigorous academic analyses and description to the discipline, scholars will continue to create new models of inquiry, examination, and evaluation useful to all disciplines". --Nathaniel Norment Jr., The African American Studies Reader, 2001, xxxiii