African American Studies @ WFU
African American Studies at Wake Forest University is a signature academic program that:
- Leverages the University’s distinctive commitment “to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts” while educating a new generation of scholars and citizens committed to serving humanity
- Employs a broad humanistic framework in providing a novel intellectual space for students and scholars to develop new knowledge in their attempt “to ask and answer the fundamental questions of human existence”
- Distinguishes its approach to the discipline by its unique focus on the cultures, knowledges, and expressions of African descended people in the southern United States and their global reverberations.
“I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition – about what we can endure, dream, fail at, and still survive.”
– Maya Angelou
AAS@Wake
African American Studies is integral to a liberal arts education.
Academics
Learn more about our signature African American Studies program and see what’s being offered this spring.
Faculty
Meet our distinguished African American Studies faculty.
“Free Joan Little and All Political Prisoners”
A public conversation featuring noted activist and retired Winston-Salem State University Professor Larry Little, Professor Emerita of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Genna Rae McNeil, and distinguished jurist Karen Bethea-Shields exploring the history, memory, and continuing legacy of the Joan Little case and the Free Joan Little movement.
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Photographs from the ‘Harlem’ series by Ozier Muhammad (1993)
#OnThisDay in 1812, author Martin Delany was born. Delany is credited with penning the earliest example of Afrofuturism in American literature, “Blake: Or the Huts of America,” Delany published the two-part series in 1859. #NMAAHCFutures
https://www.eenews.net/articles/u-n-slams-carbon-removal-as-unproven-and-risky/
CONGRATULATIONS to our @WFUAfAmStudies faculty member Dr. Regina Cordy @rejoicePhD on this well earned honor!
Congratulations to Dr. Regina Cordy, @wfubiology Assistant Professor, at @WakeForest.👏🎩
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Dr. Cordy was awarded the 2022-23 Award for Excellence in Research at WFU! #WomenInStem
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Click 🔗 in bio for more 2023 WFU Biology Faculty Honors & Announcements under News & Events.
Students demand re-opening of their schools which have been closed for years to prevent court-ordered integration. Closing the schools denied education to Black youth, but white children were given vouchers to attend segregated “private academies” (Virginia, 1963)
Congratulations to Dr. Regina Cordy, @wfubiology Assistant Professor, at @WakeForest.👏🎩
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Dr. Cordy was awarded the 2022-23 Award for Excellence in Research at WFU! #WomenInStem
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Click 🔗 in bio for more 2023 WFU Biology Faculty Honors & Announcements under News & Events.
Thinking back to the best day ever, just one week ago today. #wfugrad
#tdih 1968 Henry Dumas (b. 1934), critically acclaimed author, fatally shot by NY Transit police. Family had moved to Harlem from Arkansas in Great Migration. Active in Civil Rights Movement. Married with 2 children.
Read more ⬇️#TeachOutsideTextbook
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/henry-dumas-shot
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