Spring 2020 UNC Charlotte Africana Studies newsletter

Spring 2020 | Africana Studies | 704.687.5161

AFRS @ UNCC

This piece of abstract artwork above was featured at the 2016 Africana Studies symposium on Race and Resistance, where activists, artists, and scholars combined to address issues related to the Keith Lamont Scott shooting, the Charlotte uprising, and racial inequality in the city.

Photo credit: Akinwumi Ogundiran

A Note from Our Chair Dear Africana Studies Community: Spring brings with it the promise of “newness” and transitions. Transitions are a wonderful time for us to hold onto what is dear to us while being open to the possibilities of newness. As I sit here on the heels of my first year as chair of the Department of Africana Studies at UNC Charlotte, I find myself contemplating what this transition has meant for me and also for the department. As I ponder these transitions, I want to share with you an update on the department’s activities. But first, I have to thank Professor Crystal Eddins who has taken on the task of formatting and creating such a wonderful newsletter.

Over this past year, the department continued to develop new initiatives and build on what are the cornerstones that make us a community. We underwent an external review by leading scholars in our field who assessed our present condition and future trajectory. As the reviewers wrote, we have an “impressive number of AFRS majors” and our curriculum is well integrated into the university. Our annual symposium, “Religion, Racism, & Religious Racism: The Color of Faith

Discrimination, organized by Professor Danielle Boaz in Spring 2019, drew a wide range of presenters and participants.

Our faculty continued to shine with book awards and other distinctions: for example, the steward of the department for the past 10 years, Dr. Akin Ogundiran, was recognized with the honor of being named the Chancellor’s Professor; and Oscar de la Torre received a 1 book award for The People of the River from the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora.

Contents A Note from Our Chair

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Ten Demands: The State of the World

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Student Spotlights

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Excellence in Teaching Award 6 Faculty Updates

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Affiliate Faculty Updates

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Artist-in-Residence

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On Black Women & Girls

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The Justice in All Black Podcast 13 Course Offerings

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How to Donate

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A Note from Our Chair, con’t.

Our faculty continued to shine with book awards and other distinctions: for example, the steward of the department for the past 10 years, Dr. Akin

Ogundiran, was recognized with the honor of being named the Chancellor’s Professor; and Oscar de la Torre received a book award for The People of the River from the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora.

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The 11th Annual Dr. Bertha Maxwell-Roddey Lecture featured Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards of Duke University, who spoke on “Black Women and Reproductive Justice: A Lifelong Journey” and attracted about 150 participants. The feedback on that lecture showed the value of having such events on our campus as they help us to expand our discussions on issues of social justice for example. Students and faculty alike have had the opportunity to hear from Professor Branwen Okpako, our artist-inresidence. We brought back to the department our Brown Bag sessions, organized by Professor Tanure Ojaide, and they have given us a wonderful opportunity to learn not only of what our faculty and others are researching, but to have time to fellowship together. Finally, we have launched our newest addition, our podcast series Justice in All Black, organized by Professors Crystal Eddins and Oscar de la Torre.

As is our custom, we celebrated our students who completed their undergraduate baccalaureate journey, including our first Honor’s Program student, with our annual graduation ceremonies. Our spring ceremony was marked with sadness as we honored those who lost their lives and who were injured—physically and emotionally on April 30, 2019 by performing a second line—an African-American sacred dance parade based on New Orleans jazz. In the midst of the transition, we stayed true to the core of who we are—a caring community that is dedicated to knowledge and social justice. This will not change! We will continue to build on this guiding principle as we develop new initiatives in the coming year. One of which is to hear from you – students, faculty, staff, and the greater Charlotte community – a bit more often as we shape our future. So please, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook so that you may help us chart this transition. My goal as chair is to do what Maya Angelou so beautifully articulated. She said, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” As chair, I want you to feel empowered and connected to each other in a way that lets us all affect change. I thank you all for helping me to learn how to be chair. And I look forward to what spring will bring for us all.

Very best regards,

Professor and Chair

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Ten Demands February 26, 1969. Image: Atkins Library, Campus Activism Research Guide.

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On the Ten Demands and the State of the World The image above is the list of ten demands that on February 26, 1969 were hand delivered to the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, Bonnie Cone, by members of the UNC Charlotte Black Student Union (BSU) regarding changes to curriculum, increases to the black student and faculty population, and addressing racism and workers’ rights on campus.

The protests organized by the BSU represent only one site of a wave of actions at colleges and universities across the United States that would eventually become known as the movement for Black Studies. Inspired by global anti-colonial struggles and the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements of the 1960s, student activists employed similar protest tactics – sit-ins, lock-ins, and marches – not only to desegregate college campuses, but to desegregate and decolonize intellectual canons that prioritized European-centered thought and scholarship. Drawing on the legacies of Black thinkers like W. E. B. Du Bois, Maria Stewart, C. L. R. James, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, a new generation of scholars sought to explore, define, and delineate the global Black experience and critique prevailing epistemologies and systems of rule that devalue black life.

The Africana Studies department at UNC Charlotte has maintained this commitment to global study and critique, as our faculty research spans disciplinary backgrounds yet coalesces around interests in race, culture, the law; health and family well-being; global and comparative studies; and community and urban studies. We also understand the importance of community outreach and social justice work and strive to integrate these components into our curriculum.

As we currently are dealing with the global spread of COVID-19, the economic fallout and death toll in the United States appears to be disproportionately affecting Black communities as millions of people find themselves suddenly unemployed or working in unsafe conditions; and data from cities like Detroit, Chicago, and New Orleans indicate inordinately high mortality rates for African-Americans suffering from COVID-19 related illness. These trends are undoubtedly connected to previously existing health disparities due to impact of environmental racism and legacies of Jim Crow segregation and slavery.

Cases of COVID-19 also have surfaced in places like Haiti, Brazil, Jamaica, South Africa, and Kenya, meaning Black communities throughout the globe will be affected by the pandemic.

It is times such as these that long-standing structural inequities are most apparent, and Black Studies scholars aim to meet the needs of their respective communities while also speaking truth to power.

In the wake of the 50th year anniversary of the UNC Charlotte BSU protests and the Africana Studies department’s founding, we recognize the collective efforts of students, faculty and staff, and concerned citizens in helping to create an intellectual environment where study of Black people’s lived reality is taken seriously as an academically rigorous endeavor, and a social setting that is inclusive of all.

The struggle continues!

Crystal Eddins Assistant Professor Newsletter

Editor

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Student Spotlight

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE AFRICANA STUDIES FALL 2019 GRADUATES! • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Ka’neeshia Brown Matteo Busio Cameron Clark Sierra Evans Terry Ford Jonathan Hardy Breanna Haskin Jailan Haslem Kendall Hawkins Michael Holmes Darius Irvin Shareese Jefferson Nafees Lyon Brian McDonough Zhane McIver Australia Miller Terrain Nelson Merab Smith Kaif Tucker Brianna Underwood

Since her graduation in May 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in Africana Studies, Rebecca Byrd (pictured above) has continued her education in the History Department at UNC Charlotte. Her Master’s Thesis examines Black women funeral directors in Boston, MA from 1934-1999. During her course of study, she has lectured at the Roxbury Historical Society and the Massachusetts Historical Society, and has published a book review in the July 2019 issue of the North Carolina Historical Review. In addition, she is a member of the Levine Museum’s Young Professionals Council, and the Charlotte Mecklenburg Black Heritage Council. Outside of historical work in North Carolina, Ms. Byrd currently works as a genealogy assistant for Union County, and as a graduate assistant for the Africana Studies Department Daviana Fraser is a recent Africana Studies graduate who finished her degree with Honor’s after completing a research project on black women, professionalism and upward mobility entitled “Professionalism and Progression: A Research Study on Laws of Professionalism and Black Women’s Access to Upward Mobility.” Reflecting on her scholarly achievements, Daviana has stated that “the Africana Studies department and faculty are of the greatest influences on my academic career and experience at UNC Charlotte.”

CONGRATULATIONS to Rebecca and Daviana for your past, present, and future successes!!

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Excellence in Teaching Award Africana Studies UNC Charlotte has been named the 2019-2020 recipient of the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching! The department was nominated by the chair, Dr. Julia Jordan-Zachery, who shared the following thoughts: “As I’ve attempted to become familiar with the AFRS community, current students and alumni, I would hear a constant story. The story spoke to the efforts of the faculty members to help students to succeed. Faculty members were making themselves available beyond the classroom and they were truly engaging with our students in a way that was simultaneously challenging and uplifting. After hearing these stories, I felt compelled to nominate the department. The AFRS department truly embodied the purpose of the award.”

Africana Studies faculty create positive, student-oriented environments while maintaining high standards and well-designed instruction. Between our rapidly increasing number of majors; our responsive curriculum that is diaspora-focused, globally-oriented, and locally relevant; and contributions to enriching the University’s academic life such as with scores of lectures, symposia, and artist-inresidence programs –the UNC Charlotte Africana Studies has accomplished much. We continue to strive to respond to the needs of Black communities on campus, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area, and in the diaspora.

CONGRATULATIONS to all AFRS faculty, staff, students, and community members!

Faculty Updates

Not only do Africana Studies faculty stand out in teaching excellence, our research and publications are cutting-edge and award-winning.

Our department Chair, Dr. Julia Jordan-Zachary, co-edited Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag: Twenty-First Century Acts of SelfDefinition, an anthology about black women and politics that extends questions of community, representation and visibility, and restorative justice beyond online spaces into offline realities.

Akin Ogundiran also has been busy, recently becoming editor-in chief of the African Archaeological Review, winning the UNC Charlotte Faculty Research Grant and National Geographic Society Exploration Grant for his research on the Oyo Empire. Akin has recently published works in journals including Economic Anthropology, the West African Journal of Archaeology, and the African Archaeological Review. He has made presentations to the Archaeology and History in West Africa Workshop in Frankfurt, Germany, and the 4th Annual Shanghai Archaeology Forum in Shanghai, China. Locally, Akin was invited to present at the Cemetery Preservation Workshop to support the African American Burial Grounds Network Act. Finally, Dr. Ogundiran was designated as Chancellor’s Professor at UNC Charlotte in recognition of his outstanding scholarly achievement and demonstrated excellence in interdisciplinary teaching, research, and service.

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Faculty Updates, con’t.

Crystal Eddins published two journal articles on her ongoing research on collective consciousness and resistance in the African Diaspora: “Runaways, Repertoires, and Repression: Antecedents to the Haitian Revolution, 1766-1791” in the Journal of Haitian Studies and a co-authored paper “Repression, Revolt, & Racial Politics: Maroons in the Early Eighteenth Century Saint Domingue and Jamaica” in the Haitian History Journal. After writing two blog posts that comment on the current sociopolitical unrest in Haiti – “Haitian and French Petrol Protests in the Age of Climate Change” and “W. E. B. Du Bois, Haiti, and U. S. Imperialism” – Dr. Eddins has been invited to regularly contribute to Black Perspectives, the official blog of the African American Intellectual History Society. She has presented her work to the Social Science History Association, the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, the Association for the Study of African American Life & History, and was invited to participated in the Slavery’s Hinterlands Symposium at Brown University and the Digital Diasporas Symposium at the University of Rochester.

Dorothy Smith-Ruiz was awarded the UNC Charlotte Faculty Research Grant and participated in Duke University’s Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health 16th Annual Workshop on Religion, Spirituality, and Health. Objectives for this workshop were to 1) identify research done and high priority areas for future research on religion/ spirituality and health; 2) to explain research methodologies in studying religion/spirituality health relationships, where to use them and when; 3) to recognize how to design and carry out a research study in this particular area; and 4) to explain the grant writing process. Dr. Smith-Ruiz’s other presentations included talks at the Virginia Tech Race and Social Policy Research Center Annual Workshop and the Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Dr. Smith-Ruiz has several written works under review, including an article “Citizen Perceptions of Police Practice: An Exploration of Causes” with the Western Journal of Black Studies, “Reality Therapy and Parental Incarceration” with Child and Family Social Work, and a book manuscript: How the Great Recession of 2007-2009 Changed African American Families.

Danielle Boaz (below) is a 2019-2020 Stuart Hall Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

Tanure Ojaide has produced several scholarly and creative works of recent, including editing The Markas: An Anthology of Literary Works on BOKO HARAM and authoring “When Pastors Took the HIV/AIDS Test” in Payback and other Stories: An Anthology of African and African Diaspora Short Stories. He contributed three poems, “Head Count,” “Between Us, Eshu,” and “For Jamal Kashoggi” to Silver Lining: An Anthology of Nigerian Literature Poems, Drama, Short Stories, & Critical Essays. Ojaide 7

also presented a lead paper, “Towards Africa’s Cultural Sovereignty,” at the International Conference on Globalization, Language, Literature, Humanities and Culture at the University of Abuja.

Honoré Missihoun (left) has several works under review, including an essay on “Environmental Activism and Poetry: Tanure Ojaide’s The Tale of the Harmattan” in an anthology titled Life, Literature, and the Environment: Essays on Tanure Ojaide Writing; and “Tanella Boni’s Matins de couvre-feu: Environmentalism and Ecocriticsm in African Literature” will be published in The Routledge Handbook of Minority Discourses in African Literature. Dr. Missihoun also traveled to the 26th biannual meeting of the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougo in Burkina Faso to screen cultural productions that reflect the sociopolitical and cultural realities unfolding on the African continent in recent years.

Oscar de la Torre (left) is the inaugral recipient of the Outstanding First Book Award from the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora for his 2018 publication, The People of the River: Identity and Environment in Black Amazonia, 18351945.

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De la Torre also has written a blog post “The Towering Inferno: Fire and Globalization in Amazonia� on the devastation of recent wildfires in Brazil, and three book reviews for peerreviewed journals including The Americas, the Hispanic American Historical Review, and the Journal of African American History. He organized and presented at the William W. Brown Conference in Latin American Studies held at UNC Charlotte. Finally, he, along with Dr. Eddins, has launched the Justice in All Black Podcast to engage topics relevant to students, intellectuals, community members, and activists interested in the area of Africana Studies.

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Affiliate Faculty Updates AFRICANA STUDIES IS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY FIELD OF STUDY; OUR FULL-TIME AND AFFILIATE FACULTY RANGE IN ACADEMIC BACKGROUNDS, INCLUDING POLITICAL SCIENCE, ENGLISH, HISTORY, SOCIOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY, WOMEN & GENDER STUDIES, SOCIAL WORK, ETC. THIS BREADTH OF EXPERTISE ALLOWS US TO OFFER MANY CLASSES THAT COVER STUDENT INTERESTS. Christopher Cameron was promoted to Full Professor in the History Department, and published his new book Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism in September 2019. He won a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society earlier in 2019. Professor Cameron is currently serving as the Acting Chair of the History Department during the Spring 2020 semester and will begin a three-year term as the Director of Graduate Studies in the History Department beginning July 1, 2020.

Erika Edwards was promoted to Associate Professor in the History Department, and published her first book, Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic.

Professor Edwards spent several years uncovering the lives of Black women in Cordoba, Argentina, the results of which have challenged long-standing notions that Argentina’s Black population “disappeared.”

Sociology Assistant Professor Kendra Jason successfully received a UNC Charlotte Faculty Research Grant with Dorothy Smith-Ruiz on Filling the Gap: Addressing the Needs of Caregiving African American Grandparents. Professor Jason recently co-authored a journal article that appeared in The Gerontologist, titled “Communicative Competence: Responding to Residents’ Health Changes in Assisted Living.” Her research on aging workers with chronic conditions has been cited by PBS Next Avenue and Forbes.com, and Professor Jason has been asked to present her work in several settings including the University of Kentucky, the UNC Charlotte Center for Teaching and Learning, and the Georgia State University podcast.

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Malin Pereira, Professor of English and Executive Director of the Honors College, published two articles in 2019: “Thylias Moss’s Slave Moth: Liberatory Verse Narrative and Performance Art” in Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination (eds. Bert Ashe and Ilka Saal. U Washington P, 2019. 160-181), and “An Angry, Mixed Race Cosmopolitanism: Race, Privilege, Poetic Identity, and Community in Natasha Trethewey’s Beyond Katrina and Thrall” in New Cosmopolitanisms, Race and Ethnicity: Cultural Perspectives (eds. Ewa Barbara Luzcak, Anna Pochmara and Samir Dayal. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. 254274). She also saw an article she had published in 2015, “Brenda Marie Osbey’s Black Internationalism” from Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities,’Race’ 3: African Americans, ‘Race’ and Diaspora (Montpellier: PULM, 2015. 179-208), reprinted in Summoning Our Saints: The Poetry and Prose of Brenda Marie Osbey (ed. John Lowe, Lexington Books, 2019). Professor Pereira presented a paper, “Ekphrasis as Resistance: Contemporary African American Poets’ Response to Artistic Monuments” at the Nordic Association for American Studies Conference in Bergen, Norway, April 26, 2019.

Pereira continued in 2019 include membership on the Advisory Board of the Furious Flower Black Poetry Center at James Madison University. The Center celebrated its 25th anniversary with a gala for over 500 people September 27-28 in Washington, DC, and poetry activities at the Smithsonian Museum for African American History and Culture. She enjoyed attending the events with Honors College staff and the Martin Scholars (picture below) and in 2019, concluded her service to two diversity committees: UNC Charlotte's Council on University Community Working Group (a two-year term) and the National Collegiate Honors Council's Diversity Committee (member for seven years; co-chair for three).

Pereira was delighted to be recognized in 2019 as a finalist for the J. Murray Atkins Library Faculty Engagement Award at UNC Charlotte.

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Artist-in-Residence 2019: Branwen Okpako The Spring 2019 Artist-in-Residence was filmmaker Branwen Okpako. Branwen Okpako was born in Lagos, Nigeria to a Nigerian Orhobo pharmacologist father and a Welsh librarian mother. She studied political science at Bristol University, England, followed by studies in filmmaking at the German Film & Television Academy in Berlin. A writer and director, Okpato is best known for “The Education of Auma Obama” (2011), which, according to her, addresses “the historical context of the colonial and postcolonial experiences of Auma Obama’s generation … global citizens whose identities overcome national boundaries and seek to solve the problems inherited from their parents.”

Branwen’s other major films are “Dirt for Dinner” (2000), and “Landing” (1995). She has received, among other awards, the D-motion special prize for the city of Halle, Germany; the African Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Documentary in 2011; and the Festival’s Founders Award from the Pan African Film Festival Los Angeles Los Angeles in 2012. She is currently Associate Professor of Film Studies and Production at University of California at Davis.

During her visit to UNC Charlotte, Branwen met with faculty and several student classes to screen her more recent films, “Chibok Girls,” “The Pilot and the Passenger,” and “The Education of Auma Obama.”

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On Black Women & Girls Each year, the Africana Studies department hosts two major events: the Dr. Bertha Maxwell RoddeyLecture in the Fall, and the Annual Symposium in the Spring; the latter of which attracts presenters from across the North Carolina and southeastern region. This year, we have chosen to focus our themes on issues related specifically to Black women and girls. The theme of the Bertha Maxwell-Roddey Lecture was “Black Women and Reproductive Justice: A Lifelong Health Issue,” featuring keynote speaker Dr. Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards of Duke University. This year’s lecture sought to bring attention to the challenges Black women and girls face with regard to interactions with the medical community – and within their own communities – to challenge negative stereotypes, invisibility, and hypervisibility.

We hoped to encourage students, faculty, staff, community members, and medical professionals to advocate on behalf. In line with this theme, our spring symposium on “Imagining Futures: Black Girls and Women at the Intersections,” is intended to bring together diverse participants including academics, activists, and artists to critically interrogate the ways in which Black girls and women imagine their futures in response to, and independent of, institutional practices and ideologies that may limit their ability of living fully and freely. Black women and girls across the African Diaspora have creatively found ways to challenge, survive, and thrive in the face of multiple oppressive structures; the symposium focuses on how they imagine and make real their behaviors to do such.

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The Justice in All Black Podcast

Social justice has always been a core concern of Africana Studies at UNC Charlotte. The department was founded in 1969 as a result of student protest and has continued to centralize global issues related to the black world, as well as local issues here in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area.

To further reflect this commitment to publicly advancing knowledge about social justice issues in the African Diaspora, and to introduce the wide of range of topics to our Africana Studies audience, Drs. Crystal Eddins and Oscar de la Torre have recently launched the Justice in All Black podcast.

The image to the left, taken by Professor Akinwumi Ogundiran at the 2016 Africana Studies symposium, shows student backpack with buttons exemplifying the varied topics related to the current black struggle such as economic injustice, the need for criminal justice reform, and global struggles against imperialism.

Similarly, Justice in All Black will feature discussions around global activism, current trends in American society and the CharlotteMecklenburg area more specifically, as well as faculty research. Conversations we aim to have include: blackness in Argentina; marronnage and the Haitian Revolution; controversies around the Confederate statues in public spaces of the U. S. south; the housing crisis in Charlotte; environmental justice in Brazil; Black women, politics and activism, and healing, and many others.

We hope you’ll stay tuned!

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Course Offerings, Fall 2020 Course AFRS 1100 AFRS 1100 AFRS 2050 AFRS 2050 AFRS 2050 AFRS 2050 AFRS 2103 AFRS 2111 AFRS 2160 AFRS 2170 AFRS 2207 AFRS 2215 AFRS 3050 AFRS 3050 AFRS 3200 AFRS 3218 AFRS 3260 AFRS 3264 AFRS 3265 AFRS 3270 AFRS 3278 AFRS 3290 AFRS 3290 AFRS 3328 AFRS 3395 AFRS 3692 AFRS 3692 AFRS 3895 AFRS 4000 AFRS 4000 AFRS 4050 AFRS 4100 AFRS 4100 AFRS 5000 AFRS 6901 LBTS 2102 LBTS 2102 LBTS 2102 LBTS 2212 LBTS 2301 LBTS 2301 LBTS 2301

Section Course Title 001 002 001 002 003 004 001 001 001 001 001 001 001 002 001 001 001 001 001 001 001 001 H01 001 001 001 002 001 090 H90 001 091 H91 091 001 001 002 003 002 001 002 003

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Intro to Africana Studies Intro to Africana Studies Topics in Africana Studies: African American Women to 1877 Topics in Africana Studies: African American Thought and Culture Topics in Africana Studies: Religion and Racism Topics in Africana Studies: Black Films Introduction to Hip Hop Yoruba Language & Culture I The African American Experience through Civil War Introduction to Health and Environmental Issues Pan-Africanism Black Families in the US Topics in Africana Studies: Religion in the African American Experience Topics in Africana Studies: The African American Church/Civil Rights Folklore in the Africa & the African Diaspora Race, Violence, Colonial Times to Present Slavery, Racism & Colonialism in the African Diaspora Business Culture and Entrepreneurship in Africa African Economic Development Afro-Latin American History Race in the History of Brazil Research Methods Research Methods West African Art & Display African American Art Colloquium Colloquium Independent Study Senior Seminar in Africana Studies: Black Atlantic and Black Cosmopolitanism Senior Seminar in Africana Studies: Black Atlantic and Black Cosmopolitanism Topics in Africana Studies: Black Masculinity, Health, and Sexuality African Diaspora Theory African Diaspora Theory Special Topics in Africana Studies: Colonial Latin America Directed Readings/Research Global Connections (AFRS) Global Connections (AFRS) Global Connections (AFRS) Literature & Culture (AFRS) Critical Thinking and Communication (AFRS) Critical Thinking and Communication (AFRS) Critical Thinking and Communication (AFRS)

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Debra Smith Crystal Eddins Sonya Ramsey Destiney Linker Danielle Boaz Felecia Harris Charles Pinckney Akinwumi Ogundiran Gregory Mixon Debra Smith Huma Ibrahim Dorothy Smith-Ruiz Julia Moore Julia Moore Tanure Ojaide Danielle Boaz Crystal Eddins Veronica Robinson Veronica Robinson Oscar de la Torre Cueva Oscar de la Torre Cueva Julia Jordan-Zachery Julia Jordan-Zachery Lisa Homann Lisa Homann Huma Ibrahim Honore Missihoun Honore Missihoun Honore Missihoun Felecia Harris Akinwumi Ogundiran Akinwumi Ogundiran Erika Edwards Dorothy Smith-Ruiz Veronica Robinson Felix Jean-Louis Annette Teasdell Honore Missihoun Honore Missihoun Veronica Robinson

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How to Donate to the Africana Studies Department Africana Studies

Your donation will support our community outreach efforts, annual lectures and conferences, student scholarship, and artistin-residence program.

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