Africana Studies as Missed Education: From Carter Woodson to Afro Futures
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February 16, 2021, 6:00-7:30 pm
In 1933, Carter Woodson’s “The Miseducation of the Negro” offered a US apartheid-era critique of how educational systems hindered Black community development. A generation later, post-US apartheid era Black communities forced the establishment of Black Studies programs in K-12 through higher education. These formations have since struggled to reconcile foundational objectives of Black-centered intellectual work with White-facing concerns, exemplified most recently by a proliferation of “anti-racist” discourses. This discussion will need for placing Africana intellectual genealogies at the center of Black/Africana Studies practice in order to realize the promise of Woodson’s earlier vision.
This event is a part of the African American Studies Program’s annual Dr. Ronald Foreman Lecture Series, which invites scholars to discuss their research and views on African American Studies.
Speaker:
Dr. Greg Carr is an Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies and Adjunct Professor of Law at Howard University, serving as Afro American Studies Department Chair for 12 years. He is First Vice President of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations and Editor of The Compass: The Journal of ASCAC. A former board member of the National Council for Black Studies, Prof. Carr has twice been named “HBCU Male Faculty Member of the Year” by HBCU Digest. He designed the framework for Philadelphia’s mandatory high school African American History course and co-founded Philadelphia Freedom Schools. His written scholarship has appeared in journals such as Socialism and Democracy, Publications of the Modern Languages Association and The CLA Journal, among others, and he has contributed chapters to books such as Malcolm X: A Historical Reader, The African American Studies Reader, Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon and The African World History Project, among others. He is a commentator in a wide range of print, electronic and social media, is a weekly panelist on the daily digital news show “Roland Martin Unfiltered” and co-hosts Karen Hunter’s weekly Saturday YouTube series, “In Class With Carr.” He tweets at @AfricanaCarr and blogs at drgregcarr.com.