Composer Michael Abels, famous for work on Jordan Peele films, to visit March 6-7
Events include film screenings, panel discussions and a concert by the Barbara & Richard T. Silver Wind Symphony.
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Africana Studies and Research Center News
How music galvanized the fight for civil rights 
Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches tapped into a Black musical tradition that animated the Civil Rights Movement, says Ambre Dromgoole, assistant professor of Africana religions and music.
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Combining humanities and tech for research gains
An interdisciplinary project is sparking collaborations among those interested in digital approaches to the study of history, languages and culture.
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Redbones and racial nuance in Louisiana Lumber War
Klarman Fellow Kendall Artz wants to push beyond the assumption – one replicated by scholars – that company rosters and state records hold all there is to know about racial expression.
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Medical anthropologist to deliver annual Society for Humanities lecture
Stacey Langwick, associate professor of anthropology in the College of Arts & Sciences, will speak on "Healing in a Toxic World: Reimagining the Times and Spaces of the Therapeutic."
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African Union must condemn Madagascar coup, says Cornell expert
Olúfémi Táíwò, professor of Africana studies at Cornell University, said the move is another coup d’etat that Madagascar, and the African continent, does not need.
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Inaugural “Freedom Party” in downtown Ithaca centers on community connection
A Sept. 27 event taking inspiration from the foundations of the Harlem Renaissance will highlight collaboration, resource sharing and storytelling.
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In new book, Farred breaks down his long-time sports fandoms
Grant Farred remembers the exact moment that 52 years of intense allegiance to Liverpool Football Club (LFC) began. He also remembers how and when it took on a new, less-consuming form. Farred, a professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center, and professor of literatures in English, in th...
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Undergraduate Program
The Africana studies undergraduate major and minor prepare students for a broad range of academic and professional careers in both the public and private sectors. Africana studies has a history of shaping students' intellectual discipline, creativity, and social and political awareness.
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Graduate Program
An interdisciplinary global study of race and Blackness makes Africana studies at Cornell a significant resource for graduate students who want to engage in the interdisciplinary study of Black people in Africa, the African diaspora and around the globe.
Upcoming Africana Events
Feb
05
Thursday
12:00 PM
Feb
11
Wednesday
04:45 PM
Samantha N. Sheppard, ICM Lecture: "A Black W/hole: Tisa Bryant's Phantom Cinemas"
Goldwin Smith Hall
G22
Feb
18
Wednesday
04:00 PM
Book Talk - ILR Global Labor and Work Workshop - From Popular Front to Cold War: The Interracial Left and the International Workers Order, 1930–1954
Ives Hall
Doherty Lounge, 281 Faculty Wing
Mar
04
Wednesday
04:45 PM
Mar
10
Tuesday
04:45 PM
Amiel Bize, "The Post-Agrarian Question”
Goldwin Smith Hall
G22
May
22
Friday
12:00 AM
University Commencement Weekend
Schoellkopf Field
Useful Links for Students
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The Africana Studies & Research Center
The Africana Studies & Research Center extends the teaching and learning opportunities that we provide in both our undergraduate and graduate classrooms well beyond to service learning projects and community initiatives, from local to transnational contexts.
Exploration on the Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad Hub
The projects featured here provide information about documented underground railroad activities in our region, tell us about the small Black communities that settled here to escape slavery after New York state outlawed it in 1827, and inform us about those ordinary people who braved assisting freedom seekers at great personal risk to themselves and their families.