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.
2023 AWFUBA/AAS Annual Homecoming Lecture:
The War on Black Studies:
Education, Politics, and the Fate of Democracy
The 2023 AWFUBA/AAS Annual Homecoming Lecture, “The War on Black Studies”: Education, Politics, and the Fate of Democracy,” features a public conversation with Professor Claire Crawford, Wake Forest University, Professor Daniel Henry, Wake Forest University, and Professor Darius Bost, University of Illinois Chicago. The conversation was moderated by Dean Corey D. B. Walker, Dean of the School of Divinity, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, and Director of the Program in African American Studies, Wake Forest University. This program was sponsored by the Association of Wake Forest University Black Alumni and the Program in African American Studies.
News
;
Mark your calendars for this upcoming even brought to you by the Black Women’s Biography Collective.
In celebration of National Hip Hop History Month, join international slam poetry champion Anthony McPherson for a poetry workshop to explore techniques to format and document lines to make a literary impact.
Free online event. Registration required: https://s.si.edu/3Mo6nvc
Born #OnThisDay in 1910, Anna Pauline “Pauli” Murray was an American activist, pioneering lawyer, author and priest. Explore Murray’s genealogy through our “Proud Shoes: An African American Family,” digital exhibition: https://s.si.edu/3ueqti9
#Deacs, your friends here at Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies acknowledge Trans Day of Remembrance✨
Check out our TRANSparent: Getting real about trans experiences series on ways to support our trans friends💗💙
#WFU #WFUWGSS
Readings in Black Studies #AAASKU #BlackStudies #ReadingBlackStudies
AFAM is excited to join @MHarrisPerry for a conversation with NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe about Black women covering national politics in the media! 👉https://bit.ly/black-women-in-media
Need a space for focus and concentration? Final exam study spaces are available. Scan QR code to find your perfect space. 📕💻🧑🎓
Melanin Mondays are back! Join us next Monday, November 6th, for Black Hair Affair. Get cozy and bring your favorite hair products, perspectives, and stories. Dinner and refreshments included. 🍕📷#WFU #WFUWGSS #Melanin
