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    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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    Areas of Specialization

    African American and African Diaspora History and Culture
    Critical Race Theory
    Digital Humanities/Media Studies
    Education, Language and Literature
    Gender and Sexuality
    Geography and the Environment
    Health, Medicine, Economic, and Social Inequality
    Politics and the Black Radical Tradition
    Popular Culture, Sports and the Arts
    Religion and Spirituality
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        • Education, Language and Literature
        • African American and African Diaspora History and Culture
        • Religion and Spirituality
        • Critical Race Theory
        • Popular Culture, Sports and the Arts
        • Politics and the Black Radical Tradition
        • Gender and Sexuality
        • Geography and the Environment
        • Health, Medicine, Economic, and Social Inequality
        • Digital Humanities/Media Studies
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