WSU Department of African American Studies

WSU Department of African American Studies The official page of the Department of African American Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit.

05/13/2026
This Friday--free and open to the public!
05/11/2026

This Friday--free and open to the public!

AFS been putting in work
05/10/2026

AFS been putting in work

This year's Detroit Metro Times fiction issue features artists and writers of color including V Efua Prince, Professor o...
06/04/2025

This year's Detroit Metro Times fiction issue features artists and writers of color including V Efua Prince, Professor of African American Studies. "This special issue was born out of a deep commitment to creative solidarity and a belief that storytelling could offer connection, grounding, guidance, and resistance. As a community, we have learned to cope with the ongoing health crisis. We continue to face intentional attempts to disrupt and endanger our peace and liberated lives."

This year’s theme, “documented/undocumented,” explores the boundaries between what is recorded and what is erased, what is visible and what is obscured, what is named and what is deliberately left out

Congratulations to Dr. V Efua Prince whose most recent book Kin received the 2025 Next Generation Indie Book Award for A...
05/14/2025

Congratulations to Dr. V Efua Prince whose most recent book Kin received the 2025 Next Generation Indie Book Award for African American Fiction.

Let's celebrate our very own Dr. Melba Joyce Boyd, Michigan's Poet Laureate ❤️🥳💐
04/11/2025

Let's celebrate our very own Dr. Melba Joyce Boyd, Michigan's Poet Laureate ❤️🥳💐

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5057 Woodward Avenue (11th Floor)
Detroit, MI
48202

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

(313) 577-2321

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