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Black Studies is an interdisciplinary exploration of the histories and cultures of Black people in Africa and its diaspora. It is also an inquiry into the social construction of racial differences and its relation to how these differences perpetuate racism and racial domination.
We specialize in areas ranging from West African art, to the transatlantic slave trade, to contemporary Caribbean literature and culture, to African American history from the antebellum period to the present, to the experiences of Black people in England and Europe. Black Studies also draws affiliate faculty from many other departments.
Black Men of Amherst was published posthumously in 1976. The first edition traced the legacy of renowned African-Americans educated at Amherst, from the College’s first black graduate—Edward Jones, class of 1826—to such luminaries as Charles Hamilton Houston, the lawyer and civil rights pioneer from the class of 1915.
Jun 1, 2016 · This essay extends the scholarship by telling the story of African American male student activists who led the fight for curricular reform at Amherst College, then an all-male liberal arts college in Massachusetts.
- Kabria Baumgartner
- 2016
Kabria Baumgartner. Historians have examined how social movements influenced African American student activism in mid-to-late twentieth century America.
Apr 9, 2021 · After graduating at the top of his high school class in Salem, he became the first Black man nominated for admittance to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. But you must be 17 to enter, and Wilson was a few months short, as the congressman who nominated him surely knew.
Black Studies faculty and students come from a range of ethnic and racial backgrounds. They bring to the classroom a diverse array of experiences, traditions and disciplinary strengths. Most Black Studies faculty members hold a joint appointment in Black Studies and another department.
