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African American & African Studies
aaas@umn.edu
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Welcome to the Department of African American & African Studies! In this challenging and diverse academic environment, we offer an exciting and significantly relevant range of areas of concentration, courses, and ideas. Within a single academic department our students study the rich social, political, economic, and cultural complexities of Africa, African America, and the broader African Diaspora. Learn more >>
What can you do with a major in African American & African Studies? (PDF)
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Department News
Congratulations Associate Professors Njeri Githire and Yuichiro Onishi on earning tenure!
Njeri Githire's text, Cannibal Writes: Eating, Power, and the Politics of Othering in Caribbean and Indian Ocean Women's Writing is forthcoming with the University of Illinois Press.
Yuichiro Onishi's text, Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa is forthcoming in July 2013 with New York University Press.
May 30th, 2013
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