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The Center for Africana Studies
is a space for the critical examination of the human, cultural,
social, political, economic and historical factors that have
created and shaped the African American and African Diaspora
experiences throughout the world.As an academic and research
center, we place primary emphasis on the ways that African
Diaspora experiences and traditions have functioned on a global
scale and resonated within the spaces of a variety of national
projects. The Center provides an intellectual setting in which
interdisciplinary dialogues are encouraged.
During our more than 30-year existence,
we have initiated a variety of student- and faculty-based
programs to expand the understanding of ideas, knowledge,
experiences and approaches to the study of African and African
Diaspora history, society and culture. The Center sponsors
the Afro-American Studies Summer Institute for incoming first-year
students and several co-curricular programs, including: the
Artist and Scholar-in-Residence Programs , the Reverend Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture in Social Justice , the Center
for Africana Studies Annual Symposium and the Honorable A.
Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Memorial Lecture.
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