Title: Africana Studies
Location: US
Company: Education
Africana Studies encompasses a broad set of evolving intellectual and political projects that center the multifaceted lives and ideas of people of African descent, wherever they reside. It provides a cross-culturally and historically comparative framework to study the rich connections and exchanges among African people, their descendants, and the various “new worlds” in which they have made and are making their lives. Its primary organizing principles are race and culture.
As a field of study, Africana Studies explores the shared and divergent experiences, identities, and discourses that reflect and shape the lives of people of African descent. It places particular emphasis on the historical construction and circulation of ideas of Blackness and African-ness under a specific set of systems: slavery, colonialism, Jim Crow, Apartheid, the Cold War, post-colonialism, neoliberalism, mass incarceration, and the Global War on Terror.
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