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At UMass
W. E. B. Du Bois
Department of Afro-American Studies
325 New Africa House
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-6210 USA
Phone: 413.545.2751
Fax: 413.545.0628
http://www.umass.edu/afroam/
The University of Massachusetts W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American
Studies is one of the largest such departments in the country, offering
an undergraduate major for all students who wish in-depth knowledge of
the history and culture of Black people in Africa and the New World. The
course of study is interdisciplinary with courses in African and Afro-American
history, art, political science, and literature. The "doctoral program
seeks to reproduce both the scholarship and the social commitment of Du
Bois in a new generation of young scholar/actors who will carry into the
Twenty-first Century the work that Du Bois accomplished in the Nineteenth
and Twentieth Centuries. Rigorously trained by us in the highest ideals
and most advanced techniques of scholarship, our students are urged to
carry that scholarship out of the academy and into the world, for the
good of the community and the nation. Our dream, as we finally step down
into retirement, is to see across this country dozens, if not hundreds,
of well-trained scholars recreating our unique fusion of cross-disciplinary
scholarship and social commitment in their own colleges and universities,
and in the communities in which they live."
At Other Colleges
and Universities
Afro-American
(Black) Studies Programs in the United States
(As listed in CollegeSource, an online database for the UMass community)
The Department
of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~africam/
Institute for
Research in African-American Studies of Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/iraas/
Program in
African American Studies at Princeton University
http://www.princeton.edu/~aasprog/
Temple University's
African-American Studies Department
http://www.temple.edu/AAS/
"The first Ph.D. granting Department of African-American Studies
in the world. Temple University’s Department of African-American
Studies remains the only Department which offers all three degree programs
(B.A., M.A., Ph.D.)."
W.E.B.
Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research Harvard University
http://web-dubois.fas.harvard.edu/DuBois/
"The nation's oldest research center dedicated to the study of the
history, culture, and social institutions of African Americans. Founded
in 1975, the Institute serves as the site for research projects, fellowships
for emerging and established scholars, publications, conferences, and
Working Groups. Named after the first African American to receive a Ph.D.
from Harvard University (1896), the Institute also sponsors two major
lecture series each year, and serves as the co-sponsor for numerous public
conferences, lectures, readings, and forums."
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