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CURRENT FESTIVAL

  • Josephus Olufemi "Femi" Richards, Professor Emeritus of Afro-American Studies
    Friday, February 15, 2019
  • Du Bois Department Undergraduate Writing Award
    Wednesday, February 6, 2019
  • Black History Month with Afro-Am
    Friday, February 1, 2019
  • Upcoming Events: Save the Dates!
    Tuesday, January 15, 2019
  • Wake-Up: Reflections on our Past & Envisioning our Future
    Tuesday, January 15, 2019
  • Celebrating Britt Rusert: MLA announces book awards
    Monday, December 10, 2018

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Josephus Olufemi "Femi" Richards, Professor Emeritus of Afro-American Studies

Chester Davis Scholarship Fund

Friday, October 21, 2016

Please click here to give to the Chester Davis Scholarship Fund.

Forty Years After: Chinua Achebe and Africa in the Global Imagination

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

On February 18, 1975, the great African writer Chinua Achebe presented a Chancellor’s Lecture at the University of Massachusetts, entitled ‘An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness....

Professor Steve Tracy to be Inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is pleased to announce that Steve Tracy of Amherst, MA will be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for...

Professor Manisha Sinha’s Work Among ‘Ten Books on Slavery You Need to Read’

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina, by Manisha Sinha, professor of Afro-American studies, has been chosen by Harvard historian Sven Beckert as one...

Spotlight Scholar: Afro-American Studies Professor John Bracey

Saturday, January 10, 2015

Few scholars can boast the academic pedigree of Afro-American Studies professor and chair John Bracey. His family comprises four generations of teachers. Bracey’s grandparents were teachers and his...
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W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies

Stylized rendering of the New Africa House, home of the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies

W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies

Stylized rendering of the New Africa House, home of the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies
Stylized rendering of the New Africa House, home of the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies

329 New Africa House
180 Infirmary Way
Amherst, MA 01003
(413) 545-2751
 

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