Keith A Mayes

612/624-5202

African American & African Studies 827 Soc Sci 267 19th Ave S

Department Affiliations

Keith Mayes is available for media interviews about Kwanzaa. He can be reached at 612-723-9079.

Alternative Observances: Kwanzaa and the Black Holiday Tradition. Mayes, Keith, Routledge, Author, 2009.
Civil Rights and Black Power: The Struggle for Black Equality in the United States. Mayes, Keith, Routledge, Author, 2009.
A Holiday of Our Own: Kwanzaa, Cultural Nationalism, and the Promotion of a Black Power Holiday. Mayes, Keith, 2005.
Kwanzaa and the African-American Holiday Tradition. Mayes, Keith, 2005.

"Race Rituals: Kwanzaa and the Urban Origins of Black Power Holiday in the United States," American Historical Association, Chicago, IL: 2003
"Kwanzaa, the Us Organization, and Historical Memory," Oral History Association, San Diego, CA: 2002
Member, Curriculum Committee, Department of African-American & African Studies, University of Minnesota
Master of Ceremony, AIDS Awareness Conference, Department of African-American & African Studies, University of Minnesota
University Faculty Senate: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities , September 2003
"Augmenting Citizenship, Overhauling Democracy: The African-American Quest for Freedom and Equality in the United States": Bridge for American History Lecture Series, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN , February 2004

President's Multicultural Research Award, University of Minnesota, 2003 - 2004
Woodrow Wilson Scholars, Graduate Fellow, Princeton University, 2000 - 2002
Program in African-American Studies, Research grant, Princeton University, 2000 - 2001
Center for Arts & Cultural Policy Studies, Graduate Affiliate, Princeton University, 1999 - 2001