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African American Studies is dedicated to developing expertise and knowledge of the black experience in the African Diaspora. We offer a forum for students to understand the significant contributions blacks have made to world civilization and the American experiment.

African American Studies "is not simply some automatic understanding that flows from being black," but represent "a conscious inquiry into the history, culture, and sociopolitical condition of African and African American people. It is an exploration that calls for understanding of African and African American realities in the world, not divorced from it."—Dr. Johnetta Cole

Upcoming Course Highlight

Sporing 2010

AFA 3102: Black Perspectives: A Multidisciplinary Approach

This course introduces undergraduate students to the key issues and methodologies in African American Studies. Students will also gain more awareness about the exploration and cultivation of Black thought in regards to various social/legal/political, ideological, and sociological issues regarding the Black collective. Presentations will be featured by representative faculty from various disciplines.

AFA 3104 - The Black Intellectual Experience

One of the required courses for the minor in African American Studies, this course examines the significant socio-political theories and the corresponding practices that have defined the black experience in America and, by extension, the African Diaspora.

This class will assert that the African experience in the Americas and the Diaspora has been a tradition of systematic resistance to domination. It will further assume that there are two forms of struggle, “nationalist” and “integrationist”. Within this context, there will be a critical exploration of the significant intellectual, philosophical, theoretical and practical streams of the African American Experience.

Today in African American History

  • 1893 Inventor Granville T. Woods patents the Electric Railway Conduit.
  • 1866 Duse Mohammed Effendi, Egyptian Pan-Africanist, is born.

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