ON TOPIC I History of Black Studies | Washington University
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Knowing Blackness | An Introduction to African and African American Studies
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Major in African American Studies at the College of Charleston
Black studies, or Africana studies, is an interdisciplinary academic field that primarily focuses on the study of the history, culture, and politics of the peoples of the African diaspora and Africa. The field includes scholars of African American, Afro-Canadian, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latino, Afro-European, Afro-Asian, African Australian, and African literature, history, politics, and religion as well as those from disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, psychology, education, and many other disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. The field also uses various types of research methods.
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African Self-Consciousness
Africana Womanism
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Miseducation of the Negro
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Universities and colleges with Black studies departments, programs, and courses