The Department of African American Studies is excited to announce the addition of a new junior faculty member, Professor Eddie O’Byrn. We welcome Professor Eddie O’Byrn as we continue our commitment...
For Land and Liberty is a comparative study of the history and contemporary circumstances concerning Brazil’s quilombos (African-descent rural communities) and their inhabitants,...
Focus on the relationship between race and slavery during the revolutions in American and Haiti, respectively. We will seek to understand how the themes of slavery, revolution and race affected...
Few Black leaders are held in as high esteem as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Yet public media habitually represents these ministers as rivals, even adversaries-one the nonviolent hero of...
The enslavement of kidnapped Africans in North America was not simply a social, political, or economic problem. Rather, the institution of chattel slavery was inextricably tied to the religious and...
For Land and Liberty is a comparative study of the history and contemporary circumstances concerning Brazil’s quilombos (African-descent rural communities) and their inhabitants,...