Introduction : The intellectual project of Jacob H. Carruthers
Part I. Mis-education, deeducation, and African-centered education
Slavery of the mind : Carter G. Woodson and Jacob H. Carruthers-intergenerational discourse on African education and social change
Jacob H. Carruthers and the African-centered discourse on knowledge, worldview, and power
Thoughts on returning home and healing the casualties of intellectual war
Part II. Jacob H. Carruthers on the domains of knowledge production and African liberation
Jacob H. Carruthers, disciplinarity, and the limitations of the European modes of knowledge construction
Drawing from the deep well : reflections on African-centered social inquiry
Ideation and freedom : continued meditations on African-centered social inquiry
Kheper and Maat : consubstantiality in Kemetic thought
Part III. Re-Africanization and transformation
A deep commitment to the higher ideals of life : reflections on African spirituality
Building for eternity : institution building and African liberation
The Sebayet of the Haitian Revolution: lessons from Carruthers's irritated genie
Conclusion : Finding Our way through the desert : pan-African historiography and futurity