Welcome to Afrometrics

We are a research institute that mobilizes culturally grounded social science research and analysis toward improving Africana communities in enduring and effective ways.
Learn More
  • Welcome
  • About
  • The Team
    • Africologists' Publications
  • Empirical Research
    • The Black Unity Center at San Francisco State: A Case Study of the Impact of a Black Student Center
    • African Americans Weigh In on Solutions to Police Brutality
    • The Relationship between Culture, Learning Styles, and Academic Achievement: A Case Study of Young Black Men
    • Gender, Achievement, and Learning Styles
    • Effects of the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman Case on American Thought
    • Black People Say What it Means to be Black
  • Research Based News
    • Research Based News Episodes
  • Current Issues
  • Africana Religious Studies Series
  • DEC.IMA
  • Africological Research
  • Join
  • Afrimation Podcast
  • Welcome
  • About
  • The Team
    • Africologists' Publications
  • Empirical Research
    • The Black Unity Center at San Francisco State: A Case Study of the Impact of a Black Student Center
    • African Americans Weigh In on Solutions to Police Brutality
    • The Relationship between Culture, Learning Styles, and Academic Achievement: A Case Study of Young Black Men
    • Gender, Achievement, and Learning Styles
    • Effects of the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman Case on American Thought
    • Black People Say What it Means to be Black
  • Research Based News
    • Research Based News Episodes
  • Current Issues
  • Africana Religious Studies Series
  • DEC.IMA
  • Africological Research
  • Join
  • Afrimation Podcast
"You are a servant of the people you research; the purpose of your research is never to serve its own good but serve larger society. when you find something to be more dysfunctional than functional, you have the responsibility to root it out." 
- Dr. Sonja Peterson-Lewis
Associate Professor, Department of Africology and Africana Studies, Temple University 

Recent Articles 

September 2, 2016
Post Traumatic Growth with Black Males who Experience Racial Trauma

Written by Serie McDougal
​With new investigations of police-induced trauma, researchers tend to want to move toward discussing solutions—which is no doubt important.  However, there are very few investigations that move beyond discussing the need for solutions such as healing, to actually explaining the very processes for healing. 


Conjure: Survival of African Religious Structure, Part 3.2-Dance
​Written by Paul Easterling

Usually, the voice and body are used in tandem (when one sings another dances) which magnifies the power of conjure.  However, dance stands alone as a powerful pharmacopeia that is used to maintain solidarity in continental and diasporic African communities.


 August 8, 2016
Cultural Relevance in Research is Not Just an Added Extra, It's a Question of Validity

​Written by Serie McDougal
Assumptions of universal validity are increasingly in doubt in light of cultural variation (Persson, 2012).  Increased interaction between people of diverse cultural backgrounds, not only makes cultural sensitivity critical to the research process, but cultural competence has become all the more imperative.

Books

Picture
Marquita Gammage's book, Representations of Black Women in the Media: The Damnation of Black Womanhood,   highlights how Black women have been negatively portrayed in the media, focusing on the export nature of media and its ability to convey notions of Blackness to the public. It argues that media such as rap music videos, television dramas, reality television shows, and newscasts create and affect expectations of Black women. Exploring the role that racism, misogyny and media play in the representation of Black womanhood, it provides a foundation for challenging contemporary media’s portrayal of Black women.


Picture
Serie McDougal's book, Research Methods in Africana Studies, is the only research methods text in the discipline of Africana Studies. The text includes a variety of important methods of data collection that have been used in research about Africana populations. Serie McDougal is the recipient of the 2014 "Best Scholarly Book" Award at the 26th Annual Cheikh Anta Diop Conference in Philadelphia in October. This award recognizes definitive contributions to the discipline of Africana Studies. ​  McDougal also received the inaugural Cheikh Anta Diop and Ida B. Wells award for distinguished scholarship at the National Council for Black Studies, 2016 for this text. 

© 2013 Afrometrics. All rights reserved. 1600 Holloway Avenue, Ethnic Studies + Psychology Building, Department of Africana Studies, San Francisco, California. 
Afrometrics
  • Welcome
  • About
  • The Team
    • Africologists' Publications
  • Empirical Research
    • The Black Unity Center at San Francisco State: A Case Study of the Impact of a Black Student Center
    • African Americans Weigh In on Solutions to Police Brutality
    • The Relationship between Culture, Learning Styles, and Academic Achievement: A Case Study of Young Black Men
    • Gender, Achievement, and Learning Styles
    • Effects of the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman Case on American Thought
    • Black People Say What it Means to be Black
  • Research Based News
    • Research Based News Episodes
  • Current Issues
  • Africana Religious Studies Series
  • DEC.IMA
  • Africological Research
  • Join
  • Afrimation Podcast
  • Welcome
  • About
  • The Team
    • Africologists' Publications
  • Empirical Research
    • The Black Unity Center at San Francisco State: A Case Study of the Impact of a Black Student Center
    • African Americans Weigh In on Solutions to Police Brutality
    • The Relationship between Culture, Learning Styles, and Academic Achievement: A Case Study of Young Black Men
    • Gender, Achievement, and Learning Styles
    • Effects of the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman Case on American Thought
    • Black People Say What it Means to be Black
  • Research Based News
    • Research Based News Episodes
  • Current Issues
  • Africana Religious Studies Series
  • DEC.IMA
  • Africological Research
  • Join
  • Afrimation Podcast
Founded in January 2013. An Independent Research Institute for Africana People.