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    • About the Center

      About the Center

      The Center for Africana Studies takes an interdisciplinary approach in its broad inquiry into the ideas and experiences of African peoples throughout the world.

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      With a board of actively engaged faculty and a longer list of affiliated faculty, the Center’s work spans diverse academic disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and public health.

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      From politics and history to sociology and more, our faculty's publications cover a wide range of topics exploring the African and African-American experience.

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      The Center offers an undergraduate major and minor, focusing on three major subfields: African-American studies, African and diaspora studies, and urban studies.

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    News & Announcements

    November 9, 2018

    2019 Intersession Course: Race, Capitalism, and Bond

    This intersession register for “Race, Capitalism, and Bond”. The 2-credit course will run from January 7 to 25, meet on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 1-4:45 p.m. and is instructed by Bryan Carter. Mass incarceration and policing in America costs billions in tax revenue despite fleeting evidence of their crime reduction capacity. Yet despite their […]


    November 6, 2018

    Dr Johnson delivers African American Digital Humanities Conference keynote

    The AADHum Initiative at the University of Maryland is proud to invite scholars, researchers, teachers, professionals, activists, and community members to its first national conference, Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black. The conference will be held at the UMD campus in College Park, Maryland, on October 18-20, 2018. What happens to digital humanities inquiry when we begin with Black […]


    September 13, 2018

    Deirdre Cooper Owens visits Hopkins/History of Medicine/Sex Slavery Lab

    Please join the Sex & Slavery Lab and the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology in welcoming Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens (Queens College, CUNY) on campus next week! Deirdre Cooper Owens is an associate professor of history at Queens College, City University of New York. The recipient of several prestigious honors including the […]


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    Faculty Books
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    Chester B. Himes

    Lawrence Jackson, author

    We Are Many: Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation

    Lester Spence, contributor

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    Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius

    Lawrence Jackson, author

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