2021 Summer 1 Course: AA 234: Slavery and the Creation of Race
This Summer 1 course taught by Professor Hope Joyce Scott focuses on engaging in an in depth study of how chattel slavery was created for New World capitalism, and in turn led to racialization in America. This course meets on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9:00 am-12:30 pm during the Summer 1 session from May 24th-June […]
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 […]
Invisible No More: Asian American responses to Atlanta
This Friday March 26 at 6pm, join Prof. Choi, Hee An (School of Theology), Prof. Yoonsook Ha (School of Social Work), Prof. Hyeouk Chris Hahm (School of Social Work), Prof. Takeo Rivera (College of Arts & Sciences), and Prof. Kính T. Vũ (College of Fine Arts) for a response to the March 16 killings in Atlanta and […]
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. […]
How The Internet Is Demystifying Africana Religions
Margarita Guillory examines the function of religion in the everyday lives of African Americans, through practices tracing back to religious and cultural systems from Africa. Photo by: Cydney Scott BU researcher and assistant professor in the African American Studies Program, Margarita Guillory, is featured in a recent article on The Brink where she discusses “the emergence of […]
African American Studies Expands Course Offerings In Response to Rising Student Demand
Professor Louis Chude- Sokei explaining course demand and program expansion. Photo by: Cydney Scott BU Today featured AFAM course expansion in a newly released article. The program’s long term goals include expanding the graduate curriculum and becoming an official undergraduate major. “This spring the program offers the new course Resistance, Revolution and Slavery taught […]
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 […]
Director Louis Chude-Sokei’s New Memoir Reviewed by New York Times
Ijeoma Oluo of the New York Times wrote a book review of Dr. Chude-Sokei’s new memoir, FLOATING IN A MOST PECULIAR WAY. The review is titled “Too African for Jamaica, Too Jamaican for America, Too American for Nigeria.” Director Chude-Sokei’s memoir, FLOATING IN A MOST PECULIAR WAY, is a New York Times Editor’s Pick: Read […]
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 […]