Politics of Race, Power and Ideology: The Fluctuating Fortune of African...

Ufahamu : Journal of the African Activist Association;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...As an academic discipline, African studies in the United States has always had...the formal institution of the first African studies program at Northwestern University...American scholars to draw attention to African studies were consistently frustrated. This...

The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information Sources

African Studies Review;  April 1, 2007 ;     610 words ......REFERENCE WORKS Hans M. Zell, ed. The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information...Cloth. The fourth edition of The African Studies Companion is an exceptional resource...or amateur will find it useful. The African Studies Companion includes twenty-five sections...

Harvard's new chapter in black studies: a neglected African studies...

Black Issues in Higher Education;  October 9, 2003 ;     700+ words ......purview of a coordinating committee, African studies was given what it most sorely needed...faculty believed in the rationale of African studies being in a department, says Dr. Emmanuel...the chairman of the Committee on African Studies and a newly appointed professor in...

scholar finds global take on African Studies at Rutgers

University Wire;  March 26, 2007 ;     500 words ......Targum) (U-WIRE) NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- African Studies Association President Pearl T. Robinson emphasized Ralph Bunche's impact on African Studies in the group's second annual Presidential...said Bunche is an important figure in African Studies at historically black colleges such...

The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information Sources. 4th rev....

International Bulletin of Missionary Research;  January 1, 2008 ;     354 words ......pounds sterling]/ 222 [euro]/ $296. The African Studies Companion has for years served as...format. Now in its fourth edition, The African Studies Companion is published to provide...range of information in the field of African studies (p. xix). This is not a wild claim...

Georgetown Protest Supports African Studies.

Black Issues in Higher Education;  May 27, 1999 ;     700+ words ......racist treatment of the university s African studies program. Food for thought, said Hakim...asked at the Rally Against Racism for African Studies designed to contrast the long history...not being provided to support the African studies program. Sophomore government and...

Life Begins at Fifty: African Studies Enters Its Age of Awareness

African Studies Review;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......impending fiftieth anniversary of the African Studies Association offers the occasion for...Africanists-accomplish significant change. For African studies these steps have moved from an initial...optimistic than ever about the future of African studies, and the African ...

African Studies 222 can't find professor

University Wire;  May 5, 1998 ;     429 words ......Illini) (U-WIRE) CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- African Studies Class 222 was cancelled because of...message on April 28 from the Center for African Studies informing them of the cancellation...Zeleza, the director of the Center for African Studies, said the course was cancelled because...

Georgetown U. students sign petition for African Studies prof

University Wire;  April 9, 1999 ;     700+ words ......that Professor Margaret Lee of the African Studies program, who has been offered a part-ti...of a larger issue: neglect of the African Studies program. Lee was hired to substitute...Gwendolyn Mikell, director of the African Studies program, said the Lee situation indicates...

Conference at K-State stresses lack of funding in African studies

The Topeka Capital-Journal;  October 1, 2000 ;     449 words ......The Capital-Journal MANHATTAN --- African studies programs continue to struggle for...founder of the Mid-America Alliance for African Studies said at a conference Saturday. "It...scholarship and teaching within an African studies focus," Dehon said. "It seeks especially...

Students, alumni lament the closing of Columbia's African studies...

Diverse Issues in Higher Education;  August 10, 2006 ;     700+ words ......temporarily shut down its Institute of African Studies. In recent weeks, students and alumni...represents a lack of commitment to African studies, but that's 180 degrees from the facts...There is a strong commitment to the African Studies Institute:' The problem, she says...

Rutgers Center for African Studies begins unmapping myths

University Wire;  October 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......this, the newly founded Center for African Studies on the Livingston campus is engaged...Schroeder, director of the Center for African Studies and assistant professor of geography...University, said that the push for African studies was a result of the Cold War. The...

Georgetown U. dean approves African Studies Task

University Wire;  October 22, 1999 ;     637 words ......future of Georgetown University's African studies program. The report, created by an...increase both the number and diversity of African studies course offerings (requiring the hiring...hired Dr. Jane Guyer, the director of African studies at Northwestern University, to assess...

Professors breathing new life into U. South Carolina African studies

University Wire;  February 18, 2005 ;     543 words ......working to rejuvenate the university's African studies program, which seeks to promote interest...events and allows students to minor in African Studies through a multidisciplinary curriculum...College of Arts and Sciences, the African Studies Program brings together professors...

Moving Beyond African Studies Centers

Ufahamu : Journal of the African Activist Association;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......support from the James S. Coleman African Studies Center (JSCASC) as a result of the...Ufahamu began as a challenge to the African Studies establishment and is, in a way, reclaiming...take a critical look at the role of African studies centers. A major purpose of an African...