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Undergraduate Concentration
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BA in African American Studies
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MA in African American Studies

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Discussion of Darnell L. Moore's New Book "No Ashes in the Fire"
Discussion of Darnell L. Moore's New Book "No Ashes in the Fire"
"Mountains That Take Wing" Documentary Screening Talk Back w/ Dr. Angela Y. Davis
"Mountains That Take Wing" Documentary Screening Talk Back w/ Dr. Angela Y. Davis
"Vexy Thing: Gender and Liberation" Book Panel Discussion
"Vexy Thing: Gender and Liberation" Book Panel Discussion
The Norton Anthology Of African American Literature: Twenty Years Later
The Norton Anthology Of African American Literature: Twenty Years Later
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Selected Publications

An image of black mena dn women waiting in line to be evaluated by a physician is ghosted over an X-ray of a pair of lungs; the words "infectious fear" appear at the top

Infectious Fear: politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation

Samuel K. Roberts
Book jacket featuring the words "Spirit in the Dark" in white against a grainy black background, with a ghostly form beneath

Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics

Josef Sorett
A series of old, corbeled archways rendered in one-point perspective, with the words "Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route"

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

Saidiya V. Hartman
A group of people ride in the back of an open-bed blue delivery truck riding down a city street, flying green flags

The Devil Behind the Mirror: Globalization and Politics in the Dominican Republic

Steven Gregory
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