The African Studies Library (ASL) is responsible for a multidisciplinary collection of resources for the study of Africa. Strongest in the social sciences and humanities, it has considerable strength ...

The African Studies Center offers degree-enhancing opportunities for undergraduates as well as graduate students. Underrgaduates can elect to minor in African Studies and African Languages & ...

As of May 2021, CU Boulder has established the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS and also referred to as “the Cause”) to support teaching and research on the history and culture ...

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In 1968, a black student group placed an advertisement in the Harvard Crimson calling for the College to give black students, faculty, and scholarship more support and greater representation on campus ...

Why Major in African American Studies? The BA in African American Studies is an interdisciplinary program examining African life and culture, both on the African continent and the diaspora. As a ...

This turn has had a problematic encounter with African studies because it originated in European theories of post-modernism and post-structuralism and was thus critiqued as a “Eurocentric tale,” he ...

Africans have always produced knowledge about Africa. Their contributions have in some cases been “preferably unheard”. In others they’ve been “deliberately silenced”. So what constitutes an “African” ...

The African and African Diaspora Studies Program (AADS) considers the history, culture, and politics of Africans on the continent and African-descended peoples in the U.S., the Caribbean, South ...