Tag: African/Afro/Black Studies: Page 36

African-American

What’s New

Last month, the University of Maryland-College Park announced the establishment of the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora. The center will offer the opportunity to study Africa and the African Diaspora from multidisciplinary perspectives — particularly the arts, languages, literature, and history.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Growing from the center

Research centers abound on the nation’s campuses, offering dynamic career opportunities for scholars at every level

July 14, 2007

Students

Celebrating Africana studies: program gets ‘coming out party’ at New York University

NEW YORK In the 1960s, college administrations cobled together piece-meal Black studies programs to placate African American students, inspired by Black Power and African independence struggles, demanding curriculums and professors “relevant” to their experiences.

July 14, 2007

African-American

Transforming the Study of Literature — and Ourselves

The pursuit of the study of what we now call African American literature is its own story. The teaching of this radical and radicalizing literature is a parallel story that shares all of the problems and challenges of African American presence in the academy and in this nation.

July 14, 2007

African-American

Rooted Against the Wind. – book reviews

Rooted Against the Wind is a collection of essays in which Gloria Wade-Gayles takes us with her as she grapples with personal responses to some gripping issues: aging, rape, homophobia, where Black scholars should teach, and choosing to live in a Black community. Her responses are loving, sensible, and wise.

July 14, 2007

African-American

The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords

As entombed as most of our stories have been throughout American history, many of us know about the Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King Jr., or slavery and Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass.

July 13, 2007

African-American

The Afrocentric Idea, rev. and expanded ed. – book reviews

In this new edition of his book. The Afrocentric Idea, Dr. Molefi Kete Asante seeks to achieve three basic intellectual aims: first, to provide an expansive portrait of the Afrocentric idea; second, to address a new group of critics who have emerged in response to the expansive thrust of the movement he initiated; and third, to pose some concepts and categories for fruitful development of the discourse within the discipline of Black studies.

July 12, 2007

African-American

Bostonians squabble over headline – Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr

Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., is all over the place. He was a consultant to the movie Amistad and is a writer for New Yorker magazine, the featured guest in a BBC series on Africa, a book author, a department chairperson, and a professor. Described by many as an “intellectual superstar,” the million-dollar earner has put Harvard University’s Afro-American studies department on the map by attracting a “Dream Team” of mostly male scholars.

July 12, 2007

African-American

The public responsibility of Pan-African Studies

As a discipline, Pan-African studies has developed a body of expertise that should, in the future, help focus public policy regarding Africa and the African diaspora, according to scholars who participated in the Pan-African Studies Conference earlier this month.

July 12, 2007

African-American

Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900. – book reviews

How is a culture — or a nation, for that matter — created? It is called into being at the aboriginal level. Sound and sign, and song, and word are deployed. And the African American experience — as Black cultural construction in the United States is now called — like all other cultures, has an oral tradition at its center.

July 12, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Charting a Black research agenda – interview with H. Patrick Swygert, president of Howard University – Cover Story – Interview

President H. Patrick Swygert, 54, assumed the helm of the nation’s only historically Black Research I institution in 1995. Since his arrival at Howard University, he has been crafting a strategy to carry the institution into the twenty-first century on a more stable financial footing, from which it will be poised to lead the nation in shaping and implementing the academic and research agenda for African Americans in the next millennium.

July 11, 2007

African-American

Auctioning off yesterday – protest against the sale of African American historical artifacts and documents

For Many Black Museums, It’s “Buy-Buy History”

July 11, 2007