We invite papers for a Summer 2025 special issue on African-centered/Africana Psychology. Africana Psychology critically investigates and interrogates the life-worlds of people of African descent from an African-centered perspective. This special edition seeks articles that address issues of identity, education, health, clinical/counseling, criminal justice, sexuality, sexism, gender, methodology, racism/oppression, religion/spirituality and intellectual history. We also welcome book reviews of recent and new publications within the domain of African-centered/Africana Psychology. Suggested article topics include, but are not limited to, the following: 

• The rationale for African-centered Psychology 

• Definitions and conceptual models/orientations in African-centered Psychology

• History of the development of African-centered Psychology 

• African-centered Psychology in literature

• The relationship between African spirituality/philosophy and African-centered Psychology 

• The utilization of African-centered psychology with any of the bodies of knowledge in Black Studies

• The relationship between history and cultural personality 

• Psychological intervention and clinical treatment 

• Media images and Africana identity 

• Popular culture and Africana psychology 

• Intelligence testing with Black populations 

• The psychology of Africana leadership 

• Educating African-centered psychologists 

• The social viability/liberatory aspects of African-centered Psychology 

• The future scope and directions of Africana Psychology. 

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We encourage longer essays and research articles, as well as oral histories, institutional reports, book reviews, commentaries, artwork, and creative works such as poetry, short stories, and narratives. Essays, research articles, reports, and oral histories/interviews should not exceed 10,000 words; review essays, film reviews, and commentaries should not exceed 3,000 words; and book reviews should not exceed 1500 words. The length and medium of all creative work will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

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Special Issue Editor

DeReef F. Jamison is a Teaching Professor of African American Studies at Florida State University, and serves on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Africana Studies.  He received a B.S. in Psychology from Bowie State University; a M.S. in Community Psychology from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University; and a Ph.D. in African American Studies from Temple University. His research attempts to demonstrate the connections between Africana Intellectual History and social science that are often seen as disconnected. In particular, he examines how historical figures in the Africana intellectual tradition explore the notion of Cultural Consciousness. Jamison’s research interests include Africana Intellectual History; the intellectual history and Diasporic connections of Africana Psychology; and the Psychology of race and racism. He has published articles and essays in The Journal of African American Studies; The Journal of Black Studies; Race, Gender and Class; The Griot; Africology: the Journal of Pan African Studies; The Western Journal of Black Studies; The Journal of Black Psychology; and The Black Scholar.

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For inquiries, please contact DeReef Jamison at: joafst@gmail.com.