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African-American studies

Index African-American studies

African-American studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to the study of the history, culture, and politics of Black Americans. [1]

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'51 Dons

51 Dons is a 2014 documentary film directed by Ron Luscinski and written by Luscinski, Tom Davis and Danny Llewelyn.

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Aaron McGruder

Aaron Vincent McGruder (born May 29, 1974) is an American writer, lecturer, producer, screenwriter and cartoonist best known for writing and drawing The Boondocks, a Universal Press Syndicate comic strip and its animated TV series adaptation for which he was the creator, executive producer, and head writer.

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Abdul Alkalimat

Abdul Alkalimat (born Gerald Arthur McWorter, November 21, 1942) is an American professor of African-American studies and library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

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African American and African Diaspora Studies Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro

The African American and African Diaspora Studies Program (AADS) at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) was established in 1981 as a “student designed” minor in Black Studies.

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African American Communication

African American Communication: Exploring Identity and Culture is a 2003 book by Michael Hecht, Ronald L. Jackson II and Sidney A. Ribeau.

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African-American book publishers in the United States, 1960–80

While African-American book publishers have been active in the United States since the second decade of the 19th century, the 1960s and 1970s saw a proliferation of publishing activity, with the establishment of many new publishing houses, an increase in the number of titles published, and significant growth in the number of African-American bookstores.

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Africana Cultures and Policy Studies Institute

The Africana Cultures and Policy Studies Institute (ACPSI) is a professional policy studies organization that promotes an academic analysis of Africana cultures and policies under the rubric of various disciplines commonly referred to as Africana studies, Black studies, or Africology.

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Africana studies

Africana studies, black studies, African-American studies or Africology, in US education, is the multidisciplinary study of the histories, politics and cultures of peoples of African origin in both Africa and the African diaspora.

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Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale

The Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale is a cultural house on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Afrocentrism

Afrocentrism (also Afrocentricity) is an approach to the study of world history that focuses on the history of people of recent African descent.

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Ahsha Safaí

Ahsha Safaí (born 1973) is an American elected official in San Francisco, California.

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Akinyele Umoja

Akinyele Umoja (born 1954) is an American educator and author who specializes in African-American studies.

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Aldon Morris

Aldon Douglas Morris (born June 15, 1949) is an African-American professor of sociology and an award-winning scholar, with interests including social movements, civil rights, and social inequality.

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Alejandro de la Fuente

Alejandro de la Fuente is Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Professor of African and African American Studies and of History at Harvard University.

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Alice Green

Alice Green is an African American activist and prison reform advocate, living in Albany, New York.

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Alondra Nelson

Alondra Nelson (born 1968), an American writer and academic, is President of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).

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Alwyn Barr

Chester Alwyn Barr, Jr. (born January 18, 1938) is an American historian who specializes in African American studies, the American South, the American Civil War, and Reconstruction.

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Amanda Seales

Amanda Seales (born July 1, 1981), formerly known by her stage name Amanda Diva, is an American comedian, actress, disc jockey (DJ), recording artist and radio personality.

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American Society of African Culture

The American Society of African Culture (AMSAC) was an organization of African-American writers, artists, and scholars.

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American studies

American studies or American civilization is an interdisciplinary field of scholarship that examines American history, society, and culture.

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Andrea Abrams (anthropologist)

Andrea Abrams is an American anthropologist, Associate Professor, President of the Association of Black Anthropologists and Author of God and Blackness: Race, Gender and Identity in a Middle Class Afrocentric Church.

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Andrew Billingsley

Andrew Billingsley, Ph.D. is a sociologist, author, lecturer, college professor, and served as the 8th President of Morgan State University from 1975 to 1984.

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Angela Bassett

Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress and activist.

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Angela Davis

Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, academic, and author.

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Anika Goss-Foster

Anika Goss-Foster is a nonprofit leader from Detroit, Michigan.

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Antawn Jamison

Antawn Cortez Jamison (born June 12, 1976) is an American former professional basketball player who played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Anthony Spencer

Anthony E. Spencer II (born January 23, 1984) is a former American football outside linebacker who played nine season's in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys and New Orleans Saints.

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Area studies

Area studies (also: regional studies) are interdisciplinary fields of research and scholarship pertaining to particular geographical, national/federal, or cultural regions.

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Asian American studies

Asian American Studies is an academic discipline which critically examines the history, experiences, culture, and policies relevant to Asian Americans.

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Atheism in the African diaspora

Atheism in the African Diaspora is atheism as it is experienced by black people outside of Africa.

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Audrey Smedley

Audrey Smedley (born 1930) is an American social anthropologist and Professor Emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University in anthropology and African-American studies.

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Aunjanue Ellis

Aunjanue L. Ellis (born February 21, 1969) is an American film, stage, and television actress, and producer.

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Ava DuVernay

Ava Marie DuVernay (born August 24, 1972) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, film marketer, and film distributor.

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Bad faith

Bad faith (Latin: mala fides) is double mindedness or double heartedness in duplicity, fraud, or deception.

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Barbara C. Wallace

Barbara C. Wallace is a clinical psychologist and the first African-American woman tenured professor at Teachers College of Columbia University.

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Barbara Ransby

Barbara Ransby (born May 12, 1957) is a writer, historian, professor, and activist.

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Bell hooks

Gloria Jean Watkins (born September 25, 1952), better known by her pen name bell hooks, is an American author, feminist, and social activist.

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Berkeley High School (California)

Berkeley High School is a public high school in the Berkeley Unified School District, and the only public high school in the city of Berkeley, California, United States.

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Beth Richie

Beth E. Richie is a professor of African American Studies, Sociology, Gender and Women's Studies, and Criminology, Law, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) where she currently serves as head of the Criminology, Law, and Justice Department.

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Bhakti Tirtha Swami

Bhakti Tirtha Swami (February 25, 1950 – June 27, 2005) (previously known as John Favors and Toshombe Abdul), also known as Swami Krishnapada, was a guru and governing body commissioner of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (commonly known as the Hare Krishnas or ISKCON).

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Black Feminist Thought

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment is a 1990 book by Patricia Hill Collins.

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Blyden Jackson

Blyden Jackson (October 12, 1910 – 2000) was an African-American academic, essayist, novelist and activist.

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Bradley effect

The Bradley effect (less commonly the Wilder effect) is a theory concerning observed discrepancies between voter opinion polls and election outcomes in some United States government elections where a white candidate and a non-white candidate run against each other.

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Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson

Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson is the Professor of Transatlantic History and Culture at the University of Augsburg, Germany, and has been since October 2016.

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Buck: A Memoir

Buck is a memoir by MK Asante, published by Random House/Spiegel & Grau.

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Caleb Truax

Caleb Truax, alias Golden, (born September 14, 1983) is a super-middleweight professional boxer from Minnesota.

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Callaloo (journal)

Callaloo, A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, is a quarterly literary magazine that was established in 1976 by Charles Rowell, who remains its editor-in-chief.

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Carl Andrews

Carl Andrews was a member of the New York State Senate from Brooklyn from 2002 to 2006.

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Carol Anderson

Carol Anderson (born 1959) is an American academic.

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Carolyn Craven

Carolyn Craven (born Carolyn Marie White, December 28, 1944–November 20, 2000) was an American journalist.

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Center for the Study of the American South

The Center for the Study of the American South (CSAS) is an academic organization dedicated to the study of "southern history, literature, and culture as well as ongoing social, political, and economic issues" at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Cheryll Greene

Cheryll Y. Greene (December 20, 1943 – December 19, 2013) was an American editor and scholar.

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Chesya Burke

Chesya Burke is an editor, educator and author of comic books and speculative fiction, most notably horror and dark fantasy.

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Childhood studies

Childhood Studies or Children's Studies (CS) is a multi-disciplinary field that utilizes all areas of study to understand childhoods as experienced by children historically or contemporary.

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Chris Canty (defensive lineman)

Christopher Lee Canty (born November 10, 1982) is a former American football defensive end.

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Chris Hedges

Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist, Presbyterian minister, and visiting Princeton University lecturer.

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Claude Clark

Claude Clark (November 11, 1915 - April 21, 2001) was an African American painter, printmaker and art educator.

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Claudia Tate

Claudia Tate (December 14, 1947 – July 29, 2002)Yolanda Williams Page (ed.),, Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007, pp.

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Claudine Gay

Claudine Gay is Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies.

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Cleveland Sellers

Cleveland Sellers, Jr. (born November 8, 1944) is an American educator and veteran civil rights activist.

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College of Arts and Sciences (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Arts and Sciences, also known as A&S, is the liberal arts and sciences college of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, offering Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degrees in humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

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Combahee River Collective

The Combahee River Collective was a Black feminist lesbian organization active in Boston from 1974 to 1980.

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Constance Clayton

Constance ("Connie") Elaine Clayton, PhD, EdD (maiden; born 1933) is an American educator and civic leader.

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Cora Bagley Marrett

Cora Bagley Marrett (b. 1942) is an African American woman who is known for her work as a sociologist and for the National Science Foundation.

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Cornel West

Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953) is an American philosopher, political activist, social critic, author, and public intellectual.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.

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Cultural studies

Cultural studies is a field of theoretically, politically, and empirically engaged cultural analysis that concentrates upon the political dynamics of contemporary culture, its historical foundations, defining traits, conflicts, and contingencies.

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CUNY Dominican Studies Institute

The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) is an interdisciplinary research unit of the City University of New York devoted to the study of Dominicans in the United States and other parts of the world, including the Dominican Republic.

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D. A. Wallach

D.A. Wallach (also known as D.A.) is an American musician and business executive.

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Darian Durant

Darian Bernard Durant (born August 19, 1982) is a former professional Canadian football quarterback.

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Darlene Clark Hine

Darlene Clark Hine (born February 7, 1947) is an American author and professor.

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Darnell Hawkins

Darnell Felix Hawkins (born November 24, 1946) is an American sociologist and criminologist.

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Delores P. Aldridge

Delores P. Aldridge (born 8 June 1941) is an American sociologist.

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Department of African American Studies – Syracuse University

The Department of African American Studies (AAS) at Syracuse University is an academic department supporting Africana studies.

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Derrick Ashong

Derrick N. Ashong, also known as "DNA", (born 1975 in Accra, Ghana), is a musician, artist, activist, and entrepreneur.

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Donald Merrifield

Donald Paul Merrifield, S.J., Ph.D. (November 14, 1928 – February 25, 2010) was an American Jesuit who served as the 11th president of Loyola University of Los Angeles.

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Doris Sommer

Doris Sommer is Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

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Dwight A. McBride

Dwight A. McBride is Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of African American Studies and Distinguished Affiliated Professor of English at Emory University.

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E. Patrick Johnson

E.

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Ed Guerrero

Ed Guerrero is an African-American film historian and professor of film and African-American studies at New York University.

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Edmund Barry Gaither

Edmund Barry Gaither is known for his education and museum-related activities.

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Edmund W. Gordon

Dr.

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Eduardo Montes-Bradley

Eduardo Montes-Bradley (born July 9, 1960) is an award-winning documentarian, and photographer, lecturer, and published author.

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Edward N. Ney

Edward Noonan Ney (May 26, 1925 – January 8, 2014) was the chief executive officer of advertising agency Young & Rubicam from 1970 to 1986, and served as United States Ambassador to Canada from 1989 to 1992.

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Elvira Garner

Elvira Garner (1886–1956) was a 20th-century Florida author and watercolor illustrator.

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Encyclopedia Africana

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience edited by Henry Louis Gates and Anthony Appiah (Basic Civitas Books 1999, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2005) is a compendium of Africana studies including African studies and the "Pan-African diaspora" inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois' project of an Encyclopedia Africana.

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Ephraim Isaac

Ephraim Isaac (born May 29, 1936) is a scholar of ancient Semitic Languages & Civilization, and African/Ethiopian Languages and Religion.

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Epistemologies of displacement

Viewed as an attack on African American Studies, epistmologies of displacement is term coined by Gilbert NMO Morris, in a series of lectures published in The Triptych Papers: Lectures in Post-Colonialism, Creolization and the Epistemologies of Displacement.

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Eric Arnesen

Eric Arnesen (born: 30 April 1958) is an American historian.

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Ernest Bornemann

Ernst Wilhelm Julius Bornemann (April 12, 1915 – June 4, 1995) was a German crime writer, filmmaker, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, psychoanalyst, sexologist, communist agitator, jazz musician and critic.

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Ethnic studies

Ethnic studies, in the United States, is the interdisciplinary study of difference—chiefly race, ethnicity, and nation, but also sexuality, gender, and other such markings—and power, as expressed by the state, by civil society, and by individuals.

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Ethnozoology

Ethnozoology is the study of the past and present interrelationships between human cultures and the animals in their environment.

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Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (born 1945) is a professor of Afro-American Studies, African American Religion and the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and African American Studies at Harvard University.

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Farah Griffin

Farah Griffin (born 1963) is an American academic and professor specializing in African-American literature.

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Fat acceptance movement

The fat acceptance movement (also known as the size acceptance, fat liberation, fat activism, fativism, fat justice, or fat power movement) is a social movement seeking to change anti-fat bias in social attitudes.

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Firing of Shirley Sherrod

On July 19, 2010, Shirley Sherrod was fired from her appointed position as Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the United States Department of Agriculture.

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George Elliott Clarke

George Elliott Clarke, (born February 12, 1960) is a Canadian poet and playwright and is currently serving as the Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate.

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Gerald Early

Gerald Lyn Early (born April 21, 1952) is an American essayist and American culture critic.

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Gerald Horne

Gerald Horne is an African-American historian who currently holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston.

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Glen J. Smith

Glen J. Smith (born) is a United States Virgin Islander educator and teacher.

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Gullah language

Gullah, also called Sea Island Creole English and Geechee, is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees" within the community), an African-American population living in coastal regions of the American states of South Carolina, Georgia and northeast Florida (including urban Charleston and Savannah).

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Harold Cruse

Harold Wright Cruse (March 8, 1916 – March 25, 2005) was an American academic who was an outspoken social critic and teacher of African American studies at the University of Michigan until the mid-1980s.

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Harriette Pipes McAdoo

Harriette Pipes McAdoo (March 15, 1940 - December 21, 2009) was an American sociologist and a distinguished professor at Michigan State University.

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Harvey Young

Harvey Young (Ph.D.) is an African-American cultural historian, theorist, and scholar.

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Hazel Carby

Hazel Vivian Carby, born 15 January 1948 in Okehampton, Devon, is a British-born professor of African American Studies and of American Studies at Yale University.

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Heather MacAllister (activist)

Heather MacAllister (February 25, 1968 – February 13, 2007) was an American performer and activist for social justice in a number of areas Including anti-racism and LGBT rights but was particularly active in the fat acceptance movement.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

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Hilary Ng'weno

Hilary Boniface Ng’weno is a Kenyan historian and retired journalist.

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Historical rankings of presidents of the United States

In political studies, surveys have been conducted in order to construct historical rankings of the success of individuals who have served as President of the United States.

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History of Northwestern University

The history of Northwestern University can be traced back to a May 31, 1850 meeting of nine prominent Chicago businessmen who shared a desire to establish a university to serve the Northwest Territories.

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History of St. Mary's College of Maryland

St. Mary's College of Maryland, originally known as St.

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Horace Campbell

Horace G. Campbell is a noted international peace and justice scholar and Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.

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Hortense Spillers

Hortense Spillers (born 1942) is an American literary critic, Black Feminist scholar and the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University.

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Houston A. Baker Jr.

Houston Alfred Baker Jr. (born March 22, 1943) is an American scholar specializing in African-American literature and currently serving as a professor at Vanderbilt University in the English department.

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How Many Licks?

"How Many Licks?" is a song by American rapper Lil' Kim featuring vocals by American musician Sisqó from her second studio album, The Notorious K.I.M. (2000).

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Imani Perry

Imani Perry (born 1972 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States) is an American interdisciplinary scholar of race and African American culture.

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Index of articles related to African Americans

An African American is a citizen or resident of the United States who has origins in any of the black populations of Africa.

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Indiana University Press

Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and social sciences.

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Indira Etwaroo

Dr.

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Ingrid Monson

Ingrid Monson is Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music, supported by the Time Warner Endowment, and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

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Institute of Jazz Studies

The Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS) is the largest and most comprehensive library and archives of jazz and jazz-related materials in the world.

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It's Bigger Than Hip Hop

It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation is a creative non-fiction book by M. K. Asante.

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J. Lorand Matory

J.

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J. Luke Wood

Jonathan Luke Wood (born February 21, 1982), known professionally as J. Luke Wood, is an American social scientist, author, and the Dean's Distinguished Professor of Education at San Diego State University.

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Jabari Simama

Jabari Simama (born Frederick Lewis on March 6) is an educator, public official, and author.

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Jackie Manuel

Jackie Kameron Manuel (born March 29, 1983) is a retired American professional basketball player and current assistant coach at UNC Wilmington.

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Jacob Slichter

Jacob Slichter (born Jacob Huber Slichter, April 5, 1961) is an American musician.

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Jacqueline Grennan Wexler

Jacqueline Grennan Wexler (born Jean Marie Grennan; August 22, 1926 – January 19, 2012), commonly known as Sister J, was an American Roman Catholic religious sister who rose to prominence when she, as President of Webster College, strove to convince the Holy See allow the transferral of the college's ownership to a lay board of trustees.

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Jair Lynch

Jair Lynch (born October 2, 1971) is an American gymnast and real estate developer in Washington, D.C., in the United States.

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James B. Duke Professor

At Duke University, the title of James B. Duke Professor is given to a small number of the faculty with extraordinary records of achievement.

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James Forman

James Forman (October 4, 1928 – January 10, 2005) was a prominent African-American leader in the civil rights movement.

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Jamila Wideman

Jamila Wideman (born October 16, 1975) is an American female left-handed point guard basketball player, lawyer, and activist.

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Janet Jackson

Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress.

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Jared Ball

Jared A. Ball (born 1971, Washington, D.C.) is a professor of communication studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

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Jawad Williams

Jawad Hason Williams (born February 19, 1983) is an American professional basketball player for Alvark Tokyo of the Japanese B.League.

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Jeff Smith (Missouri politician)

Jeff Smith (born December 9, 1973) is a former Democratic member of the Missouri Senate, representing the 4th district from 2007 until 2009.

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Jennifer Hochschild

Jennifer Lucy Hochschild (born September 17, 1950) is Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University.

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Jennifer Richeson

Jennifer A. Richeson is an African-American social psychologist who studies racial identity and interracial interactions.

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Jerry Montgomery

Jerry Montgomery (born September 19, 1979) is an American football coach and former player.

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Jesse Williams (actor)

Jesse Wesley Williams (born August 5, 1981) is an American actor, director, producer and activist, best known for his role as Dr.

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Jim Sidanius

Jim Sidanius is John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in memory of William James and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

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Joanne Grant

Joanne Grant (March 30, 1930 – January 9, 2005) was an African-American journalist and Communist activist.

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John A. Powell

John A. Powell leads the UC Berkeley Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society and holds the Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion, Professor of Law and Professor of African American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

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John Edgar Wideman

John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941) is an American writer, professor emeritus at Brown University, and sits on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions.

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John Ehret High School

John Ehret High School is a four-year public high school serving grades 9-12 located in unincorporated Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States, near Marrero.

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John Stauffer (professor)

John Stauffer is Professor of English, American Studies, and African American Studies at Harvard University.

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John Trobaugh

John Trobaugh (born 1968) in Lansing, Michigan is an American artist specializing in photography and based in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Johnnie Troutman

Johnnie Troutman (born November 11, 1987) is an American football guard who is currently a free agent.

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Johnny Temple (bassist)

Johnny Temple is an American bassist, known best for his work in the post-hardcore bands Soulside and Girls Against Boys.

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Joseph Jewell

Joseph O. Jewell serves as the current chair of the African American Studies Department at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles, California.

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Joseph L. Graves

Joseph L. Graves, Jr. (born 1955), is an American Scientist and the Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Biological Studies at the Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering which is jointly administered by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and UNC Greensboro.

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Kaila Story

Kaila Adia Story-Jackson (born September 1, 1980) is a lesbian African American academic and podcaster.

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Kam Williams

Kam Williams (born December 11, 1952) is an American journalist known for his work as a film critic, celebrity interviewer, and literary critic.

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Kay Kaufman Shelemay

Kay Kaufman Shelemay is G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an African American academic and writer.

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Kellie Jones

Kellie Jones (born 1959) is an American Associate Professor in Art History and Archaeology in African American Studies at Columbia University.

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Kennell Jackson Jr.

Kennell Jackson (March 19, 1941 in Farmville, Virginia – November 21, 2005) was an African American expert in East Africa and African American cultural history.

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Kevin Franklin

Kevin Franklin, EdD was born in Virginia, where he received degrees in Psychology and Education from Old Dominion University.

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Kevin Parker (New York politician)

Kevin Parker (born March 6, 1967) represents District 21 in the New York State Senate, which comprises East Flatbush, Flatbush, Midwood, Ditmas Park, Kensington, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, and Boro Park.

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Kortney Ryan Ziegler

Kortney Ryan Ziegler (born December 15, 1980) is an American filmmaker, visual artist, blogger, writer, and scholar based in Oakland, California.

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Kyle Clemons

Kyle Clemons (born December 27, 1990) is an American track and field sprinter who competed collegiately for the Kansas Jayhawks and specializes in the 400-meter dash.

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LaMar Lemmons III

LaMar Lemmons III (born July 7, 1957) is an American politician and educator.

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Langston University

Langston University, abbreviated as LU, is a public university in Langston, Oklahoma, United States.

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Larry Gossett

Larry Gossett is an American politician.

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Latino studies

Latino studies is an academic discipline which studies the experience of people of Hispanic ancestry in the United States.

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Laundromat (Nivea song)

"Laundromat" is a song by American singer Nivea for her eponymous debut album (2001).

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Lawrence Otis Graham

Lawrence Otis Graham (born 1962) is an African-American attorney and ''New York Times'' best-selling author.

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Lee D. Baker

Lee D. Baker is an American cultural anthropologist, author, and Duke University faculty member.

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Lez Edmond

Lez Edmond is an American philosopher, social activist, civil rights journalist, public intellectual author and academic primarily concerning the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1865–95).

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List of American University people

This is a sorted list of notable persons who have had ties to the American University in Washington, D.C.

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List of awards and nominations received by Quincy Jones

This page contains a list of awards and accolades won by and awarded to Quincy Jones.

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List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 2000

Booknotes is an American television series on the C-SPAN network hosted by Brian Lamb, which originally aired from 1989 to 2004.

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List of Columbia University people

This is a partially sorted list of notable persons who have had ties to Columbia University.

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List of Harvard University people

The list of Harvard University people includes notable graduates, professors, and administrators affiliated with Harvard University.

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List of Jill Stein presidential campaign endorsements, 2016

This is a list of notable individuals and organizations who have voiced their endorsement of the Green Party's presidential nominee Jill Stein for the 2016 presidential election.

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List of Princeton University people

This list of notable people associated with Princeton University includes faculty, staff, graduates and former students in the undergraduate program and all graduate programs, and others affiliated with the University.

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List of United States First Lady firsts

* This list lists achievements and distinctions of various First Ladies of the United States.

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List of University of California, Berkeley faculty

This page lists notable faculty (past and present) of the University of California, Berkeley.

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List of University of California, Los Angeles people

This is a list of notable present and former faculty, staff, and students of the University of California, Los Angeles − UCLA.

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Locksmith (rapper)

Davood Asgari, better known by his stage name Locksmith, is a rapper of African-American and Iranian (Persian) descent from Richmond, California.

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Lois Rice

Lois Fitt Rice (February 28, 1933 – January 4, 2017) was an American corporate executive, scholar and education policy expert.

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Lonnie Bunch

Lonnie G. Bunch III (born November 18, 1952) is an American educator and historian.

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Lorenzo Dow Turner

Lorenzo Dow Turner (August 21, 1890 – February 10, 1972) was an African-American academic and linguist who did seminal research on the Gullah language of the Low Country of coastal South Carolina and Georgia.

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Lynn Eusan

Lynn Cecilia Eusan was the first black Homecoming queen at the University of Houston, where she studied journalism, and the first black woman to earn the title at any predominantly white college or university in the south.

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Malcolm Moos

Malcolm Charles Moos (April 19, 1916 – January 28, 1982) was an American political scientist.

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Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center

The Malcolm X and Dr.

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Manchester Community College (Connecticut)

Manchester Community College (or MCC) is a community college in Manchester, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States.

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Manning Marable

William Manning Marable (May 13, 1950 – April 1, 2011) was an American professor of public affairs, history and African-American Studies at Columbia University.

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Marc Lamont Hill

Marc Lamont Hill (born December 17, 1978) is an American academic, journalist, author, activist, and television personality.

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Mario Azevedo

Mario Joaquim Azevedo (born 1940) is a Mozambican novelist, historian, professor, and epidemiologist.

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Marshall Poe

Marshall Tillbrook Poe (born December 29, 1961) is an American historian, writer, editor and founder of the New Books Network, an online collection of podcast interviews with a wide range of non-fiction authors.

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Marvin Williams

Marvin Gaye Williams Jr. (born June 19, 1986) is an American professional basketball player for the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Mary Pattillo

Mary Pattillo is Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies and Director of Graduate Studies in African American Studies at Northwestern University.

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Matthew Rice

Matthew Nathaniel Rice (born February 12, 1982) is a former American football defensive end.

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Melissa Harris-Perry

Melissa Victoria Harris-Perry (born October 2, 1973; formerly known as Melissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell) is an American writer, professor, television host, and political commentator with a focus on African-American politics.

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Melville J. Herskovits

Melville Jean Herskovits (September 10, 1895 – February 25, 1963) was an American anthropologist who helped establish African and African-American studies in American academia.

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Michael J. Shapiro

Michael Joseph Shapiro (born February 16, 1940) is an American educator, theorist, and writer.

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Michael Leonard Hecht

Michael Leonard Hecht (born August 31, 1970) is an American economic developer and businessman based in New Orleans, who is currently President & CEO of Greater New Orleans, Inc, the post-Hurricane Katrina economic development organization for the New Orleans region.

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Michael P. Johnson

Michael Paul Johnson (born December 20, 1942) is emeritus professor of sociology, women's studies and African and African American studies at Penn State, having taught there for over thirty years.

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Michael Saucedo

Michael Saucedo (born July 11, 1970 Los Angeles, California is an American Hispanic Irish actor best known for his role on the soap opera General Hospital from 1999 until 2001, and he briefly returned in 2013 and 2014. He is also a musician and published author known for the "Liberty Strong" series.

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Michael Vocino

Michael Vocino (born April 15, 1946 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American professor at the University of Rhode Island where he was a former Director of Libraries, Interim Dean of Libraries and served as Collection Management Officer.

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Michael W. Twitty

Michael W. Twitty is an African-American and Jewish author, culinary historian, Judaic studies teacher, historical interpreter and blogger.

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Michèle Lamont

Michèle Lamont (born 1957 in Toronto, Ontario) is a sociologist and is the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and a Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Harvard University.

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Michelle Obama

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is an American lawyer and writer who served as the First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

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Molefi Kete Asante

Molefi Kete Asante (born Arthur Lee Smith Jr.; August 14, 1942) is an African-American professor.

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Mormon studies

Mormon studies is the interdisciplinary academic study of the beliefs, practices, history and culture of those known by the term Mormon and denominations belonging to the Latter Day Saint movement whose members do not generally go by the term "Mormon".

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Mutabaruka

Allan Hope, better known as Mutabaruka, is a Jamaican Rastafari dub poet, musician, actor, educator, and talk-show host, who developed two of Jamaica's most popular radio programs, The Cutting Edge and Steppin' Razor.

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Naomi Murakawa

Naomi Murakawa is an American political scientist and associate professor of African-American studies at Princeton University.

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Nat Adderley Jr.

Nat Adderley Jr. (born May 23, 1955) is an American pop and rhythm and blues music arranger and pianist who spent much of his music career arranging as music director for Luther Vandross tours and contributed as co-songwriter on most of Vandross's albums.

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Nathan Hare

Nathan Hare (born April 9, 1933) is an American sociologist, activist, academic, and psychologist.

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Nathan Huggins

Nathan Irvin Huggins (January 14, 1927 – December 5, 1989) was a distinguished American historian, author and educator.

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Native American studies

Native American studies (also known as American Indian, Indigenous American, Aboriginal, Native, or First Nations studies) is an interdisciplinary academic field that examines the history, culture, politics, issues, and contemporary experience of Native peoples in North America, or, taking a hemispheric approach, the Americas.

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New Africa House

The New Africa House, formerly known as Mills House, is an academic building and former dormitory of the University of Massachusetts Amherst built in the Georgian revival style with art deco accents.

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Nikky Finney

Nikky Finney (born Lynn Carol Finney on August 26, 1957, in Conway, South Carolina) is an American poet.

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Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy

The School of Education and Social Policy (SESP), established in 1926, is the smallest of the eight undergraduate and graduate institutions at Northwestern University, USA.

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Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life

Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life was an academic journal published by the National Urban League (NUL).

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Oscar Dathorne

Oscar Ronald Dathorne (19 November 1934 – 18 December 2007) was a Guyanese educator, novelist, poet and critic.

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Outline of the humanities

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the humanities: Humanities – academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences.

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Pasadena City College

Pasadena City College (PCC) is a community college located in Pasadena, California.

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Patricia Hill Collins

Patricia Hill Collins (born May 1, 1948) is a Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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Pauli Murray

Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray (1910–1985) was an American civil rights activist, women's rights activist, lawyer, Episcopal priest, and author.

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Peter Hallward

Peter Hallward is a political philosopher, best known for his work on Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze.

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Queer of color critique

Queer of color critique is a methodology that recognizes the intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality, capital, and nation, and disidentifies with the universality of social categories present in canonical sociology and historical materialism.

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Racism

Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.

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Racism in Cuba

Racism in Cuba refers to racial discrimination against Afro-Cuban or mixed-race communities.

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Ralph Ginzburg

Ralph Ginzburg (October 28, 1929 – July 6, 2006) was an American author, editor, publisher and photo-journalist.

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Randolph Bromery

Randolph W. ("Bill") Bromery (January 18, 1926 – February 26, 2013) was an African-American educator and geologist, and a former Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1971–79).

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Raumesh Akbari

Raumesh Akbari (ruh-MESH ack-BERRY) is an American politician and member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the 91st district, which encompasses part of Shelby County.

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Reactions to the Duke lacrosse case

The 2006 Duke University lacrosse case resulted in a great deal of coverage in the local and national media as well as a widespread community response at Duke and in the Durham, North Carolina area.

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Reyshawn Terry

Reyshawn Antonio Terry Sr. (born April 7, 1984) is an American professional basketball player for Piratas de Quebradillas of the Puerto Rican Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN).

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Richard S. Newman

Richard Newman is an American educator, author and historian of African American Studies.

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Risë Wilson

Risë Wilson is a community organizer, activist, strategic planner, curriculum developer, non-profit consultant, and the current director of philanthropy at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, who lives and works in New York City.

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Robert B. Stepto

Robert B. Stepto is a literary theorist and professor of African American studies, English and American Studies at Yale University.

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Robert Chrisman

Robert Chrisman (May 28, 1937 – March 10, 2013) was a poet, scholar, and founding editor and publisher of The Black Scholar (TBS).

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Robert Gooding-Williams

Robert Gooding-Williams is M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University.

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Robert L. Allen

Robert Lee Allen (born May 29, 1942) is an activist, writer, and Adjunct Professor of African-American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Roderick Ferguson

Roderick Ferguson is Professor of African American and Gender and Women's Studies in the African American Studies Department at the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC).

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Ronald L. Jackson II

Ronald L. Jackson II (born 1970) is an American academic and author.

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Ronald Myers

Rev.

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Root Boy Slim

Root Boy Slim (July 9, 1944 – June 8, 1993) was the stage name assumed by American musician, Foster MacKenzie III.

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Roy Austin

Roy Leslie Austin (born 1939) was United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago October 2001 to December 2009.

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Roy Bryce-Laporte

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Russell J. Rickford

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Sally Price

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Sandy Stone (artist)

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Santigold

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Sarah Webster Fabio

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School of Resentment

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Shakespeare's reputation

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Sharon Bridgforth

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Shaun R. Harper

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Shirley Weber

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Single Asian Female

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Siobhan Brooks

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Slavery by Another Name

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Smokey Fontaine

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Socialist Workers Party of the District of Columbia

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Sophia Smith Collection

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Southern Spaces

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St. Clair Drake

John Gibbs St.

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St. Mary's College of Maryland

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Stanlake J. W. T. Samkange

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Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

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State University of New York at New Paltz

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Stephanie Leigh Batiste

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T. M. Scanlon

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Telluride Association

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The Arab Mind

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The Birth of a Nation (2016 film)

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The Black Atlantic

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The Black Scholar

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The Bronx County Historical Society

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The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution

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The First Civil Right

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The Portland Black Panthers: Empowering Albina and Remaking a City

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The Real World: Hawaii

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The Real World: Seattle

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Thurgood Marshall College

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UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science

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University at Albany, SUNY

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University Museums at the University of Delaware

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University of California, Irvine School of Humanities

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University of California, Santa Barbara

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University of Central Florida College of Arts and Humanities

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University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts

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University of Rochester College of Arts Sciences and Engineering

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University of Tennessee Press

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University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences

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US Organization

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US-China Education Trust

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Valerie Smith (academic)

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Vanderbilt University College of Arts and Science

The College of Arts and Science is a liberal arts college at Vanderbilt University located in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Vévé Amasasa Clark

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Virginia R. Domínguez

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W. Ralph Eubanks

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Waters v. Churchill

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Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

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Wendell Bell

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William E. Cross Jr.

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William L. Van Deburg

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William S. McFeely

William Shield McFeely (born September 25, 1930) is an American historian.

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William Shakespeare

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Women's studies

Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods in order to place women’s lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppression; and the relationships between power and gender as they intersect with other identities and social locations such as race, sexual orientation, socio-economic class, and disability.

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Yamiche Alcindor

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1967 Philadelphia Student Demonstrations

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