Africana Studies

Join us for an interdisciplinary conversation exploring how food shapes culture and politics.

SNEAK PREVIEW: Faculty panelists offer insights from their research.

The award-winning novelist and Barnard alumna, Edwidge Danticat, returns to campus as the first speaker in the Africana Studies Program's Distinguished Alumnae series.
 

For The New York Times, Assistant Professor of French Kaiama Glover reviewed the book Harlem: A Century in Images.

Dedicated teachers and scholars join an expanded program

Michelle Smith, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, examines the intellectual underpinnings of black cultural critic Alain Locke’s defense of black art as a source of democratic judgment.

Anita Hill, professor of social policy, law, and women’s studies at Brandeis University, considers how our definition of the American Dream is tied up in the concept of “home,” and what this means in our current climate of mortgage foreclosures and an ever-widening income gap.

Edwidge Danticat ’90 comes to campus to launch the Distinguished Alumna Speaker Series and discuss how peril and risk can ignite the artistic process.

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