It draws on anthropology, sociology and intellectual history, the history of science and philosophy, literary and cultural studies, and political science. These two corpora are substantial enough and of sufficient importance that training in them provides a significant component of the graduate education of a student who wishes to work in African American studies at the same time as acquiring the intellectual tools of a primary discipline.
There are many other reasons why this is intellectually necessary: a proper understanding of the concept of race, for example, must be comparative and thus cross-national ; and we are bound to acknowledge the complex role of economic, religious, and intellectual linkages among communities of African descent within the Americas, as well as their connections with Africa and with Europe.
These general points can be illustrated by various iconic examples: Marcus Garvey, the founder of the largest African American mass political movement in the first half of this century was a Jamaican; Alexander Crummell, who was born in New York, was shaped by his experiences as one of the founders of the University of Liberia; the decolonization of Africa and the presence of African diplomats in New York at the United Nations affected the politics of the Civil Rights movement.
It is this interdisciplinary, comparative, cross-national approach to African American subjects in the humanities and the social sciences that makes our PhD program unique. Students study these topics from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, participating in graduate seminars in anthropology, government, history, literature, and sociology, for example.
Thus, they are able to ask and answer questions from a wider variety of perspectives than traditional disciplinary approaches allow. This interdisciplinary approach enables a student to produce richly contextualized analyses while retaining a principle focus within one discipline.
The core seminar assures that students have familiarity with the essential social, political, economic and cultural background, and a body of established questions central to the field. African studies has existed as a field at the university level for almost 50 years, contributing rich insights and novel paradigms to the humanities and social sciences through its interdisciplinary approach and careful attention to history, culture and lived experience.
In the past five decades, paradigms have shifted in the study of Africa in developmental economics, understandings of state and society, ethnicity and identity, religion and daily life, environment and constructions of environmental sustainability, health, and the burden of disease. After successful completion of course work with a minimum GPA of 3.
Applicants must have completed an undergraduate degree and should demonstrate a general knowledge of African American history and an understanding of the disciplinary bases for the study of the African Diaspora. Demonstrated knowledge in the field should include understanding relations among social, economic, and political structures and culture in African American life. Graduate Handbook. Her indelible impact on Black Studies is difficult to overstate.
Her retirement truly marks the end of an epochal era in Black Studies, but her new appointment as Professor Emerita of AADS helps ensure that her institutional legacy endures. In this role, Dr. Jones, in her honor. The Omi Osun Joni L. Jones Visiting Performing Artist Residency celebrates blackness by making a space for black artists to work, create, and reflect on black life and culture. This residency serves as a space for artists to share their work, share their wisdom, and pause long enough to create new work in community with students, faculty, staff, and community members—not necessarily in that order.
Jones Endowed Excellence Fund. Students pursue these and other questions by engaging key works within the subfields of Black feminism, Black history, Black queer theory, critical race theory, critical educational studies, performance studies, political economy, and political philosophy.
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