African American Studies
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Introduction

The African American Studies Department examines, from numerous disciplinary perspectives, the experiences of people of African descent in Black Atlantic societies, including the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Courses explore the innovative, complex, and distinctively African American social structures and cultural traditions that Africans in the diaspora have created. Students are exposed to the historical, cultural, political, economic, and social development of people of African descent.   more ...>

May 2009 Events



Wednesday, May 6
  Brandon Terry, Third year doctoral student in African American Studies and Political Science, Yale University
"On Citizenship, Equality, and Power: A Fragmentary Historiography and Political Philosophy of the Civil Rights Movement"

81 Wall Street, Gordon Parks Room 201
12:00 - 1:00PM
Part of the Yale African American Studies Dissertation Prospectus Workshopseries

Wednesday, May 13
  Deborah March, Third year doctoral student in African American Studies and American Studies, Yale University
"Revision: Toward a Transhistorical Reading of Image-making in the African American Novel"
81 Wall Street, Gordon Parks Room 201
12:00 - 1:00PM
Part of the Yale African American Studies Dissertation Prospectus Workshop series
   
Wednesday, May 20
 

Awendela Grantham, Third year doctoral student in African American Studies and French, Yale University
"Fictions of the Messiah in Francophone Caribbean Literature"

81 Wall Street, Gordon Parks Room 201
12:00 -1:00pm
Part of the Yale African American Studies Dissertation Prospectus Workshop series

* The Endeavors: Perspectives on Black Life and Culture series is sponsored by the Department of African American Studies at Yale, the Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) and the Dean's Fund at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences