African & African American Studies (AAAS) promotes an understanding of how history informs the present and inspires an engagement with the past in order to collectively dream a more just and equitable future.
Our faculty, staff, and students value the interrelated nature of the personal and the political and aim to create a community that allows for intellectual and personal flourishing.
But What Does Wonder Do?
A Conference of Emergent Black Studies
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The program’s interdisciplinarity equips students with the tools to produce revolutionary scholarship, question all assumptions and norms, and confront the power imbalances of our social reality.
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Life After AAAS
Who is impacted and what is imagined by our majors and minors