THE BLACK LEXICON SERIES

The Black Lexicon is a landmark, multi-volume reference series designed to define, codify, and advance the theoretical language of Black-centered disciplines across the academy. Curated and led by Series Editor Dr. Ayo Sekai, political scientist, linguist, and methods scholar, this initiative establishes an authoritative body of terminology shaped by African epistemologies, diasporic histories, and liberatory research traditions.

The Black Lexicon is an infrastructure for academic rigor, disciplinary coherence, and intellectual sovereignty.

Established Innovative & Emerging Disciplines for the Academy and Beyond

Every volume includes:

• Peer-reviewed scholarly entries
• Definition disciplines (term | origin | usage | interdisciplinary links)
• A prefatory essay on the discipline’s intellectual lineage
• Deep methodological grounding aligned with Black research traditions
• Cross-disciplinary references to ensure conceptual coherence
• Periodic updates, treating the series as a living, evolving canon

The editorial process is anchored in a commitment to intellectual sovereignty.

The Black Lexicon exists to:

• Reclaim authority over the language in Global Black studies
• Ensure terminological accuracy and cultural grounding
• Provide faculty, researchers, and students with rigorous scholarly tools
• Strengthen the legitimacy and visibility of Black-centered epistemologies
• Equip institutions to accurately teach Black knowledge systems
• Restores intellectual sovereignty to Black scholarship
• Provides pedagogical tools for teaching Africana frameworks
• Creates methodological cohesion across interdisciplinary studies
• Strengthens epistemic justice by centering African worldviews
• Offers reference works that challenge Eurocentric canons and reorient the global academy

The Black Lexicon reorients the academy toward epistemic domains of the future, positioning the series at the forefront of global academic discourse.