Office:	Room 324	New Africa House
Phone:	(413) 545-5019	(413) 545-2751
Hours:	M 2:00-3:00 p.m.	And by appointment

 

 

 

 

Current Course Information

Fall 2009:	AfroAm 101	Introduction to Black Studies
	AfroAm 236	History of the Civil Rights Movement
	AfroAm 390E	Race, Ethnicity and Gender (on-line)
	AfroAm 691D	Major Works in Afro-American Studies III
	AfroAm 701	Major Works in Afro-American Studies I

 

 

 

 

 

Course Syllabi (pdf)

AfroAm 101 "Introduction to Black Studies"
AfroAm 236 "History of the Civil Rights Movement"
AfroAm 390E "Race, Ethnicity and Gender"

 

Brief Bio
Amilcar Shabazz is chair of the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies. His teaching focuses on historical studies, with an emphasis on social and cultural movements, political economy, theory, methods, and public history. He earned his bachelor's degree in economics from The University of Texas at Austin, his master's from Lamar University , and his Ph.D. from the University of Houston , both in history. His book Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas ( University of North Carolina Press , 2004) received numerous honors including the T.R. Fehrenbach Book Award and was ranked a top ten nonfiction book by Essence magazine.  Professor Shabazz also has published The Forty Acres Documents , a sourcebook on reparations as well as journal articles, book chapters, reviews, and writings in diverse publications such as The Source Magazine of Hip-Hop Music, Culture & Politics . His latest book, co-edited with Celia R. Daileader and Rhoda E. Johnson, is Women & Others: Perspective on Race, Gender, and Empire (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2007).  Dr. Shabazz has chaired the Board of Directors for the Coalition of Alabamians Reforming Education, was District 7 Representative on the Black Heritage Council of the Alabama Historical Commission, and served on the Alabama state review panel for the National Register of Historic Places. He is the founding executive director of the Safe House Historic Museum in Greensboro , Alabama , among other museums he has helped to establish and with which he continues to work. Recently, he was named a Fulbright Senior Specialist and has done work in Brazil , Ghana , Japan , Cuba , Mali , France , Nicaragua , and Jamaica . Presently, he is completing an historical biography of Carter Wesley, an African American newspaper publisher and human rights activist.

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

	with Celia R. Daileader and Rhoda E. Johnson, eds., Women & Others: Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Empire (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
	Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equality in Higher Education in Texas (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004) *Winner of the T.R. Fehrenbach Book Award
	Introduction by Amilcar Shabazz co-edited with Imari and Johnita Obadele Commission on Positive Education, The Forty Acres Documents: What Did the United States Really Promise the People Freed from Slavery? (Baton Rouge: The Malcolm Generation, 1994)