This talk explores the 1990s renaissance of veteran Black bands, such as Lakeside, Parliament-Funkadelic and Zapp, who had been prominent in Black popular music more than a decade earlier.
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This year is the 50th Anniversary of Black Thursday — a day in April 1971 when 70 students marched into President Stephen O’Connell’s office with a list of demands, including having the University address the shortage of Black faculty and students at UF.
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In 1933, Carter Woodson’s “The Miseducation of the Negro” offered a US apartheid-era critique of how educational systems hindered Black community development.
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Since W.E.B. Du Bois’ analysis of Black American life in the late 19th century, we have known that racial inequities in health are primarily socially determined. Watch it here
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A kick-off event for UF’s First-Generation Student Celebration, join Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Dr. Anthony Abraham Jack, who will discuss the challenges faced by first-generation college students at predominantly white universities.
The African Americas Studies Program faculty at the University of Florida would like to express our disappointment with the grand jury’s decision in the Breonna Taylor case. Taylor was a young black woman who dedicated her life to serving others and she did not deserve this. She had dreams and goals like our students […]
Sankofa: Looking Back and Moving Forward The Journey Continues The Dr. Ronald C Foreman Jr. Symposium Thursday, February 20, 2020 Symposium- Watch it Here The 50th Anniversary Community Celebration Friday, February 21, 2020 Historic Marker Unveiling- Watch it Here Community Celebration-Watch it Here See photos of the Celebration Event Thank you for Celebrating 50 Years […]
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Amazing work by the AFA 4225 Class and the Omicron Zeta Chapter of Omega Psi Phi in their presentation of a Heavy Crown: Black Hair’s Journey throughout History.
Continuing the celebration of the African American Studies Program’s 50th year at UF. The program participated in the Homing Coming Parade, a day where Gainesville schools and UF are closed for the community to come out and enjoy the afternoon.
Please join the Humanities Center on October 24 and 25 for two events with Professor Ana-Lucia Araujo (Howard University, Department of History) as part of the Center’s 2019-20 speaker series: Rethinking the Public Sphere: Part 1 – Race and the Promise of Participation. Public Lecture “Museums and Slavery: Engaging the Past and the Present in […]
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Congratulations to Dr. Patricia Hilliard-Nunn who has been awarded as “Distinguished Affiliate Faculty Member in recognition of valuable contribution to the Center” at the Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research.
Congratulations to the December 2018 graduates with either a major or minor in African American Studies. Excellent work and a job well done!
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Manoucheka Celeste, Assistant Professor in both the Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research & the African American Studies Program at the University of Florida, recently received the 2018 Diamond Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association (NCA). Given annually, the award honors the most outstanding scholarly book(s) published during the previous two […]
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Dr. Mildred Hill-Lubin, a friend of and advocate for the African American Studies Program, passed away recently in Gainesville. She began her teaching career at Paine College in 1962 and taught there until 1972. When pursuing her doctorate in English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, she was recruited to come to the Department of […]
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Dr. Sharon Austin teaches the African Americans in Paris class during the spring break of each year. If you would like information, please contact her at polssdw@ufl.edu. You can also find videos from the class on the UF African American Studies Program’s youtube page The class studies the history, culture, and politics of African Americans […]
On November 1, 2018, the UF African American Studies Program will honor the late civil rights pioneer Virgil Hawkins from 2pm-3:30pm in the Chamber Room of the Reitz Union. Attorney Harley Hermann and members of Mr. Hawkins family will discuss his life’s work as an activist. As a result of Mr. Hawkins’ 1949 class-action lawsuit, […]
On Thursday September 27, 2018 at 6pm in the Reitz Union Second Floor Auditorium (686 Museum Road), the African American Studies Program will commemorate sixty years of desegregation. In 1958, George Starke became the first black student at UF. We are inviting a panel of alumni to discuss their experiences as minority students here. The […]
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Dr. Manoucheka Celeste, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Gender, Women’s Studies, and Sexualities Research, recently won the Diamond Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association for her book, Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the African Diaspora: Travelling Blackness (Routledge 2017). This Award is given to “the most outstanding scholarly book published during […]
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The UF African American Studies Program congratulates its Director, Dr. Sharon Austin, for her promotion to full professor. She has also received a University of Florida Term Professorship. Dr. Austin has been a UF employee since 2001 and teaches courses in African American Studies and Political Science. Please join us in congratulating her.
Several of the African American Studies core faculty members, affiliate faculty members, and advisory board members are members of research teams that have been awarded Intersections Grants from the Mellon Foundation (organized by the Center for the Humanities and Public Sphere). See the information below for information about each of the four grants: The African American Studies faculty, affiliates, […]
Dr. Ashley Robertson Preston will join the African American Studies faculty this fall. She received a doctorate in African Diaspora History/Public History from Howard University. This fall, Dr. Preston will teach two sections of Key Issues of Black Atlantic Thought and Mary McLeod Bethune: Black Women and Social Activism. Welcome to the Gator nation Dr. […]
The African American Studies Program congratulates the students who have graduated during the 2017-18 academic year. Go Gators! December 2017 Graduates with the Major Andres Arroyo Charly Cadet Shannon Lewis DeAunte Fox Steve Jolly Shakera Latimore Mary Park, African American Studies and Political Science Mayleen Sanchez, African American Studies and Political Science Erin Smith, African […]
On Friday April 20th, Nkwanda Joh, the Director of the Cultural Arts Coaliton, Inc. presented Dr. Patricia Hilliard-Nunn with the Andrew Mickle Service Award for teaching history. She received this award at the opening reception for the Annual Fifth Avenue Arts Festival. Dr. Hilliard-Nunn is a Senior Lecturer in the UF African American Studies Program. […]
Dr. Sharon Austin, Director of the African American Studies Program and Associate Professor of Political Science, recently published her third book. The State University of New York at Albany Press published The Caribbeanization of Black Politics: Race, Group Consciousness, and Political Participation in America in February 2018. The book examines the political participation and social […]
On February 7, 2018, Dr. Sharon Austin published an article entitled, “Black Americans Most Left Behind by Progress since Dr. King’s Death” in The Conversation. Established in 2011, the Conversation allows academicians, researchers, and others to publish online articles that provoke discussions about certain topics. Approximately, 20,000 individuals viewed this article which can be found at https://theconversation.com/black-americans-mostly-left-behind-by-progress-since-dr-kings-death-89956. […]
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African American Studies Program Assistant, Sharon Burney, has been awarded a Superior Accomplishment Award. Please join us in congratulating her for a job well done.
Dr. Vincent Adejumo is one of the recipients of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teacher of the Year Award. Dr. Adejumo has been teaching several courses for the African American Studies Program since 2015, including Black Masculinity, Black Wall Street, Introduction to African American Studies, Mentoring At-Risk Youth, and the Wire. Congratulations Dr. […]
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Dr. Manoucheka Celeste, Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Program and the Center for Women’s Studies, Gender, and Sexualities has been awarded a term professorship. Her book, Travelling Blackness:Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the African Diaspora, won the best book award at the 2017 National Communication Association Outstanding Book Award from the African American […]
The prestigious Abdias Nascimento Award, named after the Brazilian writer, scholar, activist, and politician who played a significant role in the emergence of Black Studies as an academic discipline in the United States, Europe, and Puerto Rico, has provided funding for Brazilian undergraduate, graduate students and researchers from NEAB-UDESC (http://www.faed.udesc.br/?id=1844) to study at the University […]
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University of Florida student, James Worthy, produced a short video that describes the benefits of taking African American Studies courses at UF. You can view it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbntjflYzrc&feature=share.
African American Studies majors Andres Arroyo, KeAndre Bates, Tyjah Eady, Eric Futch, Timothy (TJ) Hayes, and Carlos Miranda have been competing in several track and field events during the summer 2017 track and field season. The Florida Gators men’s track and field team won the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Championship for the second straight season and fourth time […]
Arman Hall, an African American Studies major, recently won a gold medal after competing in the 4×400-meter relay team in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the 2016 Olympic games. He is also the 2015 NCAA Outdoor 400m National Champion. In addition, he finished fourth (45.09) at the USA Trials in order to qualify for […]
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In summer session B 2016, Dr. Vincent Adejumo taught a service-learning course entitled “Mentoring At-Risk Youth”. This service-learning course entails students at the University of Florida critically analyzing concepts and theories that pertain to youth who exhibit behaviors that are consistent with being at-risk. After three days of lecture, the students spent their Thursdays and […]
2016’s States with the Highest Political Engagement Among Blacks by Richie Bernardo Black votes matter. In both 2008 and 2012, black voters turned out at the polls at unprecedented numbers, helping to secure the election and reelection of the first black president in the Oval Office. Barack Obama owed much of his triumphant White House […]
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Beginning in July 2016, African American Studies majors and minors will no longer have to complete two seminars. The Senior Integrative Seminar II is being eliminated. The new requirements for the major are: 12 credits of required coursework: AFA 2000 Introduction to African American Studies AFA 3110 Key Issues in African American & Black Atlantic […]