Owens Call For Papers Sponsored by. Paris Junior College, Paris, Texas-. -Texas A M-commerce, commerce,Texas- The crossroads of folk studies and African American studies http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/cwheeler/wmowens/owenscfp.htm
Extractions: November 2, 2005, will mark the one-hundredth birthday of the William A. Owens, the nationally-renowned folklorist, essayist, autobiographer, and author of fiction. He is the author of such works as This Stubborn Soil Black Mutiny: The Revolt of the Schooner Amistad A Season of Weathering (1973), and Eye Deep in Hell
Internet Public Library: African/African-American Association for the Study of African American Life and History The NationalAssociation of African American studies seeks to further research and http://www.ipl.org/div/aon/browse/soc40.05.00/
Extractions: AAHPF is a non-profit foundation dedicated to the preservation of African American history. "The main goals of the AAHPF include soliciting grants to fund full-time maintenance and preservation activities of African American historical sites. This work will be monitored by the foundation staff and performed by noted experts in the field of historic preservation." The site provides information on the projects they have worked as well as sources and links to information on preservation of African American historical sites. Founded in 1957 as a nonprofit organization, the African Studies Association (ASA) consists of a membership of individuals who are interested in African affairs. Most live in America with other residing in Canada, Asia, Europe, and Africa and are school teachers from K-12, researchers associated with universities, and others who work in the fields of international developement, health, foreign affairs, and government service. The mission of the ASA is to provide a forum for individuals who profess a scholarly and professional interest in Africa. The site points to institutional officers, mission, local business including annual, board, business and town meetings, and it lists many links associated with the organization's mission through the African Studies Main Menu.
African American Studies BU 2004/2005 Undergraduate Bulletin The African American studies Program explores the African American experience inglobal and CAS AA 396 State and commerce in Atlantic Africa, 14501850 http://www.bu.edu/bulletins/und/item13d3.html
Extractions: Director Ronald K. Richardson Professors Blakely, Breiner, Heywood, Teele, Thornton Visiting Professor Kim Professor Emerita Cromwell The African American Studies Program explores the African American experience in global and comparative perspective. Courses are designed to make students aware of the connections between Americans of African descent, other Americans, and global populations. Critical investigation of race, ethnicity, and other forms of collective identity is a central concern of the program. The minor concentration in African American Studies provides an introduction to the global study of the African American experience and to various forms of collective identity such as race and ethnicity. TOP OF PAGE Not offered 2004/2005 Surveys the writings of African American women writers from slavery to the present and explores the African American female literary tradition in the context of black history and culture. Also offered as CAS EN 380. Kim. 4 cr, 2nd sem. Not offered 2004/2005 History of the African American struggle for racial equality and democracy from the turn of the century through the 1960s. Use is made of the most recent scholarship, memoirs, documentary films, and oral history accounts. Teele. 4 cr, Summer I
Courses CAS AA 396 State and commerce in Atlantic Africa, 14501850. CAS AA 491, 492Directed Study in African American studies Prereq consent of director. http://www.bu.edu/afam/program/courses.html
Extractions: African American Studies Courses 2005-2006 current as of August 16, 2005 CAS AA 207 Introduction to Ethnic, Race, and Minority Relations Social definition of race and ethnicity. The adjustment of different ethnic groups and their impact upon U.S. social life. How prejudice and discrimination create class identities and how caste relations have affected patterns of integration during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Also offered as SO 207. Not offered in 2005/2006. CAS AA 304 Introduction to African American Women Writers Surveys the writings of African American women writers from slavery to the present, and explores the African American female literary tradition through a contextual approach based on Black history and culture. Also offered as EN 370. Not offered in 2005/2006. CAS AA 309 African American History in Global and Comparative Perspective
Extractions: The Program in African-American Studies is an interdepartmental plan of study for undergraduates who wish to apply the insights and techniques of several disciplines in an effort to understand the experience of people of African ancestry, in the United States in particular. Each course and seminar, including the core course, is open to all undergraduates, as is the colloquium (or Works-in-Progress series of lectures) sponsored throughout the year by the program. Thus, students may fulfill certain distribution requirements by enrolling in courses and seminars offered by the program, or they may take part in program activities related to their academic interests and goals.
AAS Undergraduate Studies: Temple University Introduction to basic research in African American studies. in terms ofcommunication, commerce, technology, the balance of power, and national debts. http://www.temple.edu/AAS/ug/courses.htm
Extractions: An introductory course in the understanding, reading, and speaking of Yoruba, an African language which has had a major impact on the African cultures of Brazil, Haiti, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and the United States. Students will be taught grammar, vocabulary, and conversation in the language. The course will be a lecture-demonstration. 025. Elementary Hausa (3 s.h.) An examination of the significant role the black church has played in creating an African American response to social, political, and economic obstacles and barriers in America. Introduction to Richard Allen, Henry McNeal Turner, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other church leaders. Students learn to appreciate how the church builds the community, maintains culture, and produces leaders. LOWER LEVEL
Extractions: Faculty Associate, School of Business and School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park Ph.D. - University of California, Berkeley, 1978 Ernest J. Wilson III , has wide involvement in African and African-American affairs as a scholar, activist, and policy advisor. He has written on African political economy in Comparative Politics and other journals, and worked on African policy at the White House, the Congressional Black Caucus, and with African governments. His essay on African Americans and the Information Revolution appeared in the Urban League's Annual Review 2000. PUBLICATIONS ( Selected Governing Global Electronic Networks . William Drake and Ernest J. Wilson III (Editors). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, forthcoming.
Ferris Catalog Introduction to African American studies is designed for the person who is Diagnostic Medical Sonography, Directed studies, Ecommerce Marketing http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/fsucatlg/coursecatalog/courses.cfm?course_id=2899
Home Page Contact the African American studies liaison librarian, Lori Ricigliano. bullet, Pacific Northwest Chapter, National Black Chamber of commerce http://library.ups.edu/instruct/ricig/afam101/
Extractions: Write a five page paper on the topic. Include a minimum of four sources : two from the Turbulent Voyage text and two from the reading list. Cite your sources using the MLA format Some good starting points: Library Catalogs Simon Summit For books on the subject, use the following subject terms: African Americans Study and teaching (Higher) Blacks Study and teaching (Higher) United States Race relations Study and teaching (Higher) United States Ethnic relations Study and teaching (Higher) Example of a book available in our library: Black studies in the United States : three essays / Robert L. Harris, Jr., Darlene Clark Hine, Nellie McKay.
African American Web Sites The Black World Today provides news, ecommerce, and communication resources focused Center for African American studies at the University of Michigan http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/caas/projects/aawebsites.html
Extractions: AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN ORIENTED WEB PORTALS AFRICAN AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS AFRICAN AMERICAN RESEARCH RESOURCES AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN ORIENTED BOOKSTORES ... OTHER AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL RESOURCES AND ENTERTAINMENT AFRICAN AMERICAN ORIENTED WEB PORTALS Afroam.org (http://afroam.8media.org/) A site focused on African American news from the Washington Afro-American newspaper in Washington, DC organized into four sections (culture, information, history and kids zone). Afronet.com (http://www.afronet.com/) A Los Angeles-based site concerning the African American Community. The site discusses current issues, art, music, race and new technology. There is a reference section linked to many other sites that are not related to African Americans, but the links are very informative (weather, maps, investments, world news, and numerous other areas). The “Afronet Specials” business home page covers business issues pertaining to African Americans. It gives investment tips, black owned stocks and companies. Black World Today (http://www.tbwt.com/)
African American Studies African American studies. A. Philip Randolph, Pioneer of the Civil Rights Troublesome commerce The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade. http://www.lsu.edu/lsupress/Books/Subject_Listing/african.htm
Extractions: Advanced Search African American Studies A. Philip Randolph, Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement Pfeffer. Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866. Hollandsworth. Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century Hall. American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Phillips Anatomy of a Lynching: The Killing of Claude Neal McGovern. Antislavery Reconsidered: New Perspectives on the Abolitionists Perry and Fellman. Cohen. Barber of Natchez Davis and Hogan. McKee and Chisenhall. . Schafer. Bruce. Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History Moreno. Black Face, Maligned Race: The Representation of Blacks in English Drama from Shakespeare to Southerne Barthelemy. Ochs. Black Prophets of Justice: Activist Clergy Before the Civil War . Swift.
Faculty - Cynthia Blair Vicious commerce African American Women s Sex Work and the Department ofAfrican American studies, UIC, Curriculum Committee, 19992000 http://www.uic.edu/depts/hist/Faculty/blair.html
Extractions: Research Areas: My research interests include the history of race and sexuality in the United States, African American urban history, and African American women's history. My research has focussed primarily on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I am currently doing research for the expansion of my study of African American prostitution in Chicago at the turn of the century. This entails archival work in various municipal collections and in the papers of private and public social welfare agencies in Chicago and Cook County between 1900 and 1930. Publications: Dissertation: "'Vicious' Commerce: African American Women's Sex Work and the Transformation of Urban Space in Chicago, 1850-1915"
Multicultural Studies | Web Resources General Multicultural studies African American Asian American Latin Economics and Statistics Administration, US Department of commerce http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/hss/ref/webminstudies.html
Extractions: This page provides selected web resources to begin research in the interdisciplinary field of Multicultural Studies, which covers many subjects including history, literature, music, art, political science, and sociology. You can access these websites by clicking on the appropriate hyperlink below. Additionally, library staff are available to assist you at the reference desk, and a Resource Guide for Research in Multicultural Studies is available at http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/hss/ref/minstudies.html General Multicultural Studies Directories and Associations Bibliographies and Research Guides top Directories and Associations Associations on the Net : Ethnicity, Culture, and Race Associations Directory is provided by the Internet Public Library CLNet Diversity CWIS Listings Index of Campus Wide Information Servers in American Literature and Related Fields , Georgetown University, provides links for several minority group studies from various University websites Glass Ceiling Commission works to identify barriers and expand practices and policies which promote employment opportunities for the advancement of minorities and women into positions of responsibility in the private sector. Site contains studies and reports
African Studies Center | African Studies & The Diaspora African and African American studies (University of Kansas) MELANET is anelectronic commerce, resource, and research center. http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/About_African/ww_afdis.html
Extractions: African and African American Studies (University of Kansas) African and Afro-American Studies Program, St. Louis African and Afro-American Studies, UNC-CH Africana Collection Page African-American Studies (LOC) This site includes rsource guides for African and African-American studies, and an archive for Africa-N News and Information Service
Archives Du Commerce Des Esclaves: UNESCO-CI Sites web African studies Collection (Indiana University Bloomington Sites webIndiana UniversityBloomington - Archives of African American Music and http://portal.unesco.org/ci/fr/ev.php-URL_ID=8780&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_SECTIO
Extractions: In 1984, a professor at Rutgers University stumbled upon a trove of historic data in a courthouse in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Over the next 15 years, Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, a noted New Orleans writer and historian, painstakingly uncovered the background of 100,000 slaves who were brought to Louisiana in the 18th and 19th centuries making fortunes for their owners.
Women's Studies At SCSU The Southern Connecticut State University Women s studies Program hosted Women of She is editor of Words of Fire An Anthology of africanamerican http://www.southernct.edu/departments/womensstudies/conference/2000.htm
Extractions: The Southern Connecticut State University Women's Studies Program hosted "Women of African Descent: Reaching Across the Diaspora," the Tenth Annual Women's Studies Conference, October 6-7, 2000. This conference, sponsored in conjunction with the SCSU Women's Center, African-American Women's Summit, SCSU Black Student Union, CCSU Women's Studies Program, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority/New Haven, ECSU Women's Studies Program, The Entrepreneurial Center, SCSU Office of Multicultural Affairs, National Association of Black Nurses/New Haven, National Association of Black Social Workers/New Haven, UNIFEM/USA,WCSU Women's Studies Program, and WPKN Radio, and provided an opportunity to explore topics regarding women's rights and status on a global scale and sought to promote interaction among academics, community leaders, activists, professionals, artists, and others interested in women's and international studies. Click here for conference schedule >> Featured Speakers
Online Degree Programs | American Military University BA in African/African American studies The African and africanamerican studiesstudent will pursue a social science degree that covers a rich variety of http://www.amu.apus.edu/Academics/Degree_programs/SubPrograms.htm?paid=2274
