"As a vibrant intellectual enterprise, African American and African Diaspora Studies has transformed the way we think about Africa, the Americas, and the world. The breadth of philosophical frameworks that shape the field range from Pan Africanism, Négritude, Black Internationalism, Civil Rights, Black Feminism, to Critical Race Theory. By engaging critical histories of its diasporic geographies, the field provides insights on modernity’s formation and futures. In establishing the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies in 2019, Columbia University strengthens its leadership in the field."
−Mabel O. Wilson, Chair-African American & African Diaspora Studies
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Selected Publications
South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s
Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture
The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism
