Dr. Paula Austin Featured in New CAS Video Series
Dr. Paula Austin, professor of history & African American studies, shares her most recent research with CAS in this new video. Description Join Professor Austin as she takes us on a journey back nearly 100 years, to Jim Crow Washington, DC, where black youths navigated discrimination in ways that remain all too familiar to young […]
Dr. Louis Chude-Sokei gives talk on Sound Project at the Geothe Institute
On Thursday 10/22, AFAM Studies Director Louis Chude-Sokei gave a talk on his current research project on sound at the event Listening to History: Sound, Space, and Remembrance hosted by the Geothe Institut-Boston. Dr. Chude-Sokei’s current research project, “Sometimes you just have to give it your attention,” is “an auditive, multi-perspective investigation of the former […]
Dr. Paula Austin featured in Arts & Sciences magazine: A History of Racial Discrimination and the Fight for Change
Dr. Paula Austin, professor of History and African American Studies, is featured in the Arts & Sciences magazine article A History of Racial Discrimination and the Fight for Change by Marc Chalufour. The article discusses Dr. Austin’s debut book, Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life (NYU Press, 2019), […]
Prof. Birenbaum Quintero awarded Ruth Stone Prize
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Chair of CFA Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Professor of Latin American Studies, and affiliated faculty of African American Studies! Dr. Birenbaum Quintero was recently awarded the Ruth Stone Prize by the Society for Ethnomusicology for his book Rites, Rights, and Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia’s Black Pacific […]
TODAY: Activism and the Role of Black Women
“Activism and the Role of Black Women” Tues., Oct. 27 | 6:00 PM EDT Speakers: Bree Newsome, Activist, Writer, Artist; Gabby Williams, WNBA Player, Chicago Sky; Dr. Saida Grundy, Assistant Professor, Boston University Moderator: Marisa Moseley, Head Coach, Women’s Basketball, Boston University Co-sponosored by: BU Diversity & Inclusion, Department of Athletics, College of Arts & […]
Arts & Sciences Magazine Feature: A Better Future
Several professors affiliated with the African American Studies Program are featured in the newest issue of Arts & Sciences Magazine. For the project titled A Better Future, the magazine interviewed researchers including Dr. Louis Chude-Sokei, Dr. Katherine Levine Einstein, Dr. Saida Grundy, Dr. Margarita Simon Guillory, and Dr. Spencer Piston. Here’s a preview of what […]
BU Today Feature: It’s Time for Reparations and Transitional Justice for African Americans
African American Studies Professor Joyce Hope Scott wrote an opinion article featured in BU Today, “It’s Time for Reparations and Transitional Justice for African Americans.” The article discusses the grander scope of the reparations movement, which consists of more than solely monetary reparations and repairs damages that occurred long after the end of slavery itself. […]
AFAM Studies Faculty Featured in University-Wide Conversation on Racism & Antiracism
On June 24, 2020, Boston University Diversity & Inclusion hosted a conversation on race featuring BU faculty, staff, and alumni titled A Day of Collective Engagement: Racism and Antiracism, Our Realities and Our Roles. Many of the sessions, hosted on Zoom, are now available for view on Diversity & Inclusion’s website. Below, we’ve compiled a list […]
Prof. Grundy featured in The Atlantic: “The False Promise of Anti-Racism Books”
In her newest story for The Atlantic, “The False Promise of Anti-racism Books,” Dr. Saida Grundy argues “texts that seek to raise the collective American consciousness are rendered futile without concrete systemic changes.” Read the article here.
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi Joins BU Faculty
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Ibram X. Kendi will join Boston University this summer as a Professor in the Department of History in the College of Arts & Sciences, following the completion of our standard professorial appointment process. Dr. Kendi will establish a new University-wide research center that will be titled the ‘BU […]