Save the Date: “Then You Don’t Want Me”: Canonizing Gayl Jones
“Then You Don’t Want Me”: Canonizing Gayl Jones Virtual Symposium- May 13-15, 2022 “Then You Don’t Want Me”: Canonizing Gayl Jones will more clearly and publicly carve out a space for Jones’ storytelling. The symposium promises to deepen and trouble the canon of African American women’s literature and Black feminism. Bringing together folks across disciplines, […]
Call for Papers- Critical University Studies Symposium: Legacies of Slavery and Settler Colonialism
Critical University Studies Symposium: Legacies of Slavery and Settler Colonialism Boston University March 17-18, 2022 The History Department and African American Studies Program at Boston University are excited to host a two-day symposium on March 17-18, 2022, that will: 1) reflect on the historical role of U.S. universities in establishing and perpetuating racial inequalities, white […]
Upcoming Event: A Conversation about Blackness, immigration and what it means to be an American
Join African American Studies Director, Louis Chude-Sokei as he discusses his his experiences discovering Blackness between the African nation of Biafra, Jamaica, and Los Angeles. The event will be a conversation on blackness, immigration, and what it means to be an American featuring special guests Ha Jin, Robert Pinsky, Sanjay Krishnan, and Archelle Thelemaque. Chude-Sokei’s newly […]
UPCOMING EVENT: “The Skin You’re In” Screening
Join us for a virtual screening of The Skin You’re In documentary on Wednesday, April 28, from 6:30-7:45pm EDT. This webinar will include a discussion with Thomas LaVeist, Executive Producer and Dean of Tulane University’s School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine. This event is free and open to all BU students, faculty, and staff. Black Americans live sicker […]
BU Giving Day 2021 is This Wednesday, April 7th!
April 7th is BU giving day! Boston University’s African American Studies Program is proud to be at the center of conversations about tolerance, justice, cultural change and indeed diversity. Our goal is to allow students practical training in such issues along with the theoretical tools necessary for either more advanced study or a more direct […]
March 9th EVENT: The Black Left Feminism of Claudia Jones
Join us Tuesday, March 9, 2020, as Dr. Carole Boyce Davies, Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters in the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University, assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964). Claudia Jones was a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, […]
EVENT: “Black Radical: The Life and Times of Legendary Boston Black Activist William Monroe Trotter”
Join us tonight Tuesday, February 23, 2021, for a book talk with Dr. Kerri K. Greenidge, Mellon Assistant Professor, Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University. Dr. Greenidge is the winner of the 2020 Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize. The event will be moderated by Dick Lehr, Professor of Journalism at Boston University. […]
Damon Young, “Race and Humor in Apocalyptic Times: an Evening with Damon Young”
Thurs., Feb 18 | 7-8:30 PM ET Damon Young, “Race and Humor in Apocalyptic Times: an Evening with Damon Young” Cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at work today, writer, critic, humorist, satirist and “professional black person,” Damon Young visits BU AFAM for an evening of conversation. He is also the […]
Upcoming Event: ‘Black Radical’ Book Talk with Dr. Kerri K. Greenidge
Black Radical: The Life and Times of Legendary Boston Black Activist William Monroe Trotter “Winner of the 2020 Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize” Tuesday, Feb 23, 2021 06:00 PM ET William Monroe Trotter (1872–1934) galvanized black working-class citizens to wield their political power despite the violent racism of post-Reconstruction America. Please join us for […]
Upcoming Event: Afro-LatinX: Then and Now
“Afro-LatinX: Then and Now” Tuesday, Dec. 8 | 6–7:00 PM EST Given the current crises of race and immigration in America in and around the COVID-19 pandemic and state-sponsored xenophobia, Michael Birenbaum Quintero and Trent Masiki, moderated by Angélica María Sánchez Barona, will engage the complexities of Afro-LatinX identities and cultural production in this context. What are the different histories […]