Clovis E. Semmes is Professor of Black Studies and Sociology and Director of Black Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Professor Emeritus of African American Studies at Eastern Michigan University. He earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University. Semmes’s teaching and research include the impact of systemic inequality on African American institutional and cultural development, the conceptual and theoretical foundations of knowledge in African American studies, African American expressive and popular culture, comparative urban communities, and health systems and practices among African Americans, especially alternative and non-medical health systems and practices. Among his publications are Cultural Hegemony and African American Development; Racism, Health, and Post-Industrialism; and Roots of Afrocentric Thought: A Reference Guide to Negro Digest/Black World, 1961-1976.
