African American Studies IS Pro Humanitate
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
Academics
Learn more about our signature African American Studies program and see what’s being offered this fall.
Symposium on the 40th Anniversary of Cornel West’s Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity
A symposium featuring Myisha Cherry (UC Riverside), Brandon Terry (Harvard University), Shatema Threadcraft (Vanderbilt University), Corey D. B. Walker (Wake Forest University), Jonathan L. Walton (Wake Forest University) and Cornel West (Union Theological Seminary) on the 40th Anniversary of Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity
News
Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities Corey D. B. Walker on January 6 and American Democracy
January 7, 2022
Cornel West, renowned philosopher, social activist, author and scholar coming to Wake Forest
November 4, 2021
Cornel West, renowned philosopher, social activist, author and scholar, will speak at Wake Forest University on November 4 and 5. His... Read More »
Prof. Julia S. Jordan-Zachary's commentary in The Washington Post - "The media loves 'missing White women.' Black women are already missing from public view."
October 18, 2021
You cannot miss what is not seen. Because U.S. society often renders Black women invisible, public outcry may be muted or absent when we... Read More »
Latest Events
"The Fierce Urgency of Now": Climate Change, Environmental Justice, and the Fate of Democracy
January 17, 2022 | 12:00pm ET via Zoom
The Global Dimensions of Black History
February 2, 2022 | 3:30pm | Annenberg Forum-Carswell Hall
February 10, 2022 | 4:00pm ET via Zoom
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The Slavery, Race and Memory Project will host Professor @DorothyABrown for its annual lecture series on Feb. 1 at 6:30 pm. Professor Brown, an advocate for economic and social justice, will speak about her book, "The Whiteness of Wealth." Register ➡️https://wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HBnvS0I_TeajcimkgT1qzg
Our January issue is now online via @SAGE_Publishing
The lead article features a transcript of the launch of @ddhewty’s biography on Cedric Robinson, where US & UK thinkers, writers & activists discuss the continued significance of his work
Order physical copies from next week
Slightly delayed by the ice storm, our newest exhibit, "Experiences of Colonialism in Latin America" is now open!
