An interdisciplinary department, our faculty are trained in anthropology, education, English, history, philosophy, sociology and other disciplines spanning the humanities, behavioral health, and the social sciences. Course work in African American Studies provides students with the analytical and theoretical tools to understand how structures of racial difference and inequality create and work through the performance of gender and sexual identities, race, nation, ethnicity and class. Our research and teaching encompasses language and literature, history, religion and spirituality, critical race theory, popular culture, sports and the arts, politics, Black radicalism, health and medicine, education, the environment.
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