New Developments in Africana/Black Studies

BLACK STUDIES CONTINUES TO STRUGGLE AND SURVIVE!

Histories of Black Studies
University of Michigan: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/daas/
San Francisco State University: https://africana.sfsu.edu/content/history
Cornell: https://africana.cornell.edu/node/1421
Duke: https://trinity.duke.edu/news/always-motion-50-years-black-studies-duke
Northwestern: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/15175
University of Illinois at Springfield: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/15173 
South Suburban Community College: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/15171
Loyola (Chicago): http://hdl.handle.net/2142/15172

New Black Studies Departments
St. Louis University: https://unewsonline.com/2021/03/african-american-studies-to-become-a-department/
Louisiana State: https://www.jbhe.com/2021/01/louisiana-state-university-elevates-black-studies-to-departmental-status/
Stanford: https://news.stanford.edu/today/2021/03/22/departmentalizing-african-african-american-studies-aaas-program/
Bowdoin College: https://bowdoinorient.com/2021/03/12/africana-studies-program-becomes-full-department/
Michigan State University: https://statenews.com/article/2021/03/new-aaas-department-share-plans
Washington University: https://www.jbhe.com/2016/11/black-studies-achieves-departmental-status-at-washington-university-in-st-louis/

UC San Diego approves new undergraduate degree in Black Diaspora and African American Studies
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/uc-san-diego-approves-new-undergraduate-degree-black-diaspora-and-african-american-studies

Only Black Studies graduate admits for U of Chicago English Department
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/16/university-chicago-english-faculty-prioritizes-black-studies-graduate-students-2021

New Houston Black Studies Consortium
https://www.jbhe.com/2021/02/four-houston-area-universities-form-a-black-studies-consortium/

Editorial | Pitt’s lack of progress, transparency on a Black studies course requirement is unacceptable
https://pittnews.com/article/165121/opinions/editorial-pitts-lack-of-progress-transparency-on-a-black-studies-course-requirement-is-unacceptable/

Class examines public health through the lens of Africana studies
https://hub.jhu.edu/2021/04/13/africana-studies-public-health-shilliam-white/

Rowan DEI Invites Africana and International Studies Professors to Discuss COVID-19’s Impact on Africans
https://thewhitonline.com/2021/03/news/rowan-dei-invites-africana-and-international-studies-professors-to-discuss-covid-19s-impact-on-africans/

Black Liberation Movement Archives
Washington University Documenting Ferguson: http://digital.wustl.edu/ferguson/
University of Georgia, Civil Rights Digital Library: http://crdl.usg.edu/
Harvard Documenting BLM: https://www.jbhe.com/2020/08/harvard-university-gallery-creating-a-living-archive-of-the-black-lives-matter-movement/
Cal State University Dominguez Hills: https://www.jbhe.com/2020/07/california-state-university-dominguez-hills-acquires-massive-archive-of-black-history/

Contributed to by Abdul Alkalimat, mcworter@illinois.edu and Amilcar Shabazz, shabazz@umass.edu

Published by: Amilcar Shabazz

Dr. Amilcar Shabazz is head of the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and teaches in the area of historical studies with an emphasis on the political economy of social and cultural movements, education, and public history.

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