[Paladin2]

"Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University"

WTF is the difference between "Africana" and "African" Studies in the breadth and depth of material under "scholarly" study?

[Chode]

prolly the same difference as b'twn Colored People and People of Color... none

[BykrBayb]

Maybe it's like the difference between American and Americana. He seems to be an expert in African-American* pop culture, and knows nothing so many untruths about African-American culture.

*I rarely use the phrase African-American, but in this case it's the only accurate word or phrase to express what I mean.

[Albion Wilde]

WTF is the difference between "Africana" and "African" Studies

"African" would mean directly tied to Africa, the continent and the cultures therein. "Africana" would mean anything at all involving anything at all involving Africa, no matter how remote. It's a liberalized definition.