Upcoming Event: Screening of “Autumn Beat” with Director Antonio Dikele Distefano
Screening of “Autumn Beat” with Director Antonio Dikele Distefano Friday, February 24 at 6 PM Pre-release screening and live Q&A for his new Amazon Prime film Autumn Beat, the first Italian film with young Afro-Italian protagonists: Tito has a stutter and Paco dreams of becoming a famous rapper in an evermore multi-ethnic Italy. Co-sponsored by Romance […]
Research of Drs. Heywood & Thornton in Netflix series by Jada Pickett Smith
Premiering February 15th, Netflix’s new series Queens of Africa: Njinga “traces the rise and reign of Queen Njinga of Angola amid family betrayal and political rivalries.” Created by Jada Pickett Smith, this series follows a show on Cleopatra from last year. The film is based on Dr. Linda Heywood’s book Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen. […]
Spring 2023 Course Spotlight: CAS HI 290 B1: Warfare in Africa
CAS HI 290 B1: Warfare in Africa with Professor John Thornton MWF 11:15 am – 12:05 pm Explores antiquity, the Slave Trade, Imperialism, and Insurgency. How Africans have waged war through history, beginning with ancient Egypt and proceeding through the course of the building of states and Empires, to the military culture that underlay the […]
Upcoming Event: The Uses and Abuses of Jim Crow
The Uses and Abuses of Jim Crow with Zine Magubane Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at 5:00-7:00 PM Location: Howard Thurman Center, FLR 205, 808 Commonwealth Ave, Brookline 02446 About the Speaker Zine Magubane is a Professor of Sociology at Boston College with a courtesy appointment in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies. About the […]
Dr. Margarita Guillory Named BU’s delegate to HERS Network
Dr. Margarita Guillory has been chosen by the Provost’s Office to be Boston University’s delegate to the Higher Education Leadership Development for Women Institute, a nine-day intensive program that trains women to take on positions in university administration. HERS (Higher Education Resource Services) is a leadership development and research organization that is dedicated to creating and […]
AA207 Featured in List of Terriers’ Favorite BU Courses
At the beginning of the semester, BU took to Twitter and Facebook to gather terriers’ favorite courses. The list, A Crowdsourced List of Our Terriers’ Favorite BU Courses, includes CAS AA 207: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. The class, currently taught by Dr. Saida Grundy, is full for the Spring 2023 semester, but be sure to […]
Spring 2023 New Course: CFA MU 855 ZJ
CFA MU 855 ZJ: “African-American Spirituals and Their Influence on Contemporary Art, Music, Literature, and Dance” is a new topics course taught by Professor Leland Clarke for graduate students in CFA’s Musicology & Ethnomusicology program. Tuesdays & Thursdays at 12:30 – 1:45pm Examines how Spirituals have served as essential touch points for all styles of […]
Upcoming Event: Reggaetón Scholarship Today
Join us for a Round Table of 3 Reggaetón-based presentations moderated by Professor Michelle Birenbaum Quintero and given by Wayne Marshall (Berklee College of Music), Petra Rivera-Rideau (Wellesley College) and Marina Arias Salvado (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). When: November 21, 2022 at 6pm Location: TBD Does Reggaetón Owe Reggae Money? – Wayne Marshall […]
AFAM Major & Minors’ Dinner
Thank you to everyone who attended the Major & Minors’ dinner at the African American Studies House on this past Friday, November 4th at 6PM.
Tune In! Afrofuturism : A Carnegie Hall Podcast | Hosted By Director Louis Chude-Sokei
Hosted by AFAM Director, Dr. Louis Chude-Sokei. Contributions from the Caribbean diaspora are essential to understanding Afrofuturism and Black futurism. Louis Chude-Sokei explores Caribbean sound, culture, and history, with a focus on Jamaica in a conversation with Dennis Howard, Klive Walker, and Isis Semaj-Hall. A transcript is also available on Carnegie Hall’s website. Available wherever you get […]