In recent years Africana Studies or AfricologyGates and Appiah, Encyclopedia Africana, Vol. 1, p. 115. departments at many major universities have grown out of the Afrocentric "Black Studies" departments formed in the 1970s. Rather than focusing on black topics in the African diaspora (often exclusively African American topics), these reformed departments aim to expand the field to encompass all of the African diaspora. They also seek to better align themselves with other University departments and find continuity and compromise between the radical Afrocentricity of the past decades and the multicultural scholarship found in many fields today.Delores P. Aldridge, Carlene Young. Out of the Revolution: The Development of Africana Studies, Lexington Books, 2000. .
