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As an Africana studies student, you will seek to understand the collective experience of black people in today’s world with a focus on the Diasporan societies, cultures and people of the United States, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Dear DePauw Community,We are pleased to invite you to an engaging panel discussion titled "Protecting Africana Studies a...
04/26/2023

Dear DePauw Community,

We are pleased to invite you to an engaging panel discussion titled "Protecting Africana Studies as an Academic Discipline," which will be held on May 4th at 11:45 am in the Atrium of the CDI. This event is open to all members of the DePauw community, and we encourage you to attend. As you may know, recent news reports have highlighted that 42 states have introduced bills or taken other steps that would restrict teaching critical race theory or limit how teachers can discuss racism and sexism. In addition, eighteen states have already imposed bans and restrictions either through legislation or other avenues. Even the AP African American Studies course has been revised due to backlash from the Florida Governor. At this panel discussion, we will explore the motivations behind these attempts to ban critical race theory and the impact they may have on Africana Studies as an academic discipline. Our panelists will share their insights and experiences, and we will also have an open discussion where attendees can ask questions and provide their perspectives. It is essential to understand the implications of these attempts to restrict critical race theory and whether they will spill over into other areas. Therefore, we encourage you to attend this important discussion and learn more about this critical issue. Please join us on May 4th at 11:45 am in the Atrium of the CDI. We look forward to seeing you.

Africana Studies at DePauw University proudly announces Dr. Pearl Ford Dowe as the 2023 Black History Lecturer. Dr. Dow...
02/17/2023

Africana Studies at DePauw University proudly announces Dr. Pearl Ford Dowe as the 2023 Black History Lecturer. Dr. Dowe is the Asa Giggs Candler Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Emory University and serves as the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs.

Dr. Dowe is a graduate of Savannah State University and holds an MA in political science from Georgia Southern University and a Ph.D. in political science from Howard University. She joined the faculty of the University of Arkansas in 2008. In 2016 she was visiting scholar in residence at Howard University’s Ronald Walters Center for Public Policy.

Dowe’s most recent research focuses on African American women’s political ambition and public leadership. Her manuscript, The Radical Imagination of Black Women: Ambition, Politics and Power, is under contract with Oxford University Press. Her most recent publication Resisting Marginilzation: Black Women's Ambition and Agency, published in 2020, received the Anna Julia Cooper Best Paper Award from the Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics. Dowe's published writing includes co-authorship of Remaking the Democratic Party: Lyndon B. Johnson as Native-Son Presidential Candidate (University of Michigan Press: 2016) and editorship of African Americans in Georgia: A Reflection of Politics and Policy Reflection in the New South (Mercer University Press, 2010). She has published numerous articles and book chapters that have appeared in the Journal of African American Studies, Political Psychology, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Journal of Black Studies, and Social Science Quarterly.

05/17/2022

Happening today at 4:00 p.m. in the Hamilton Room in Hoover Hall. Senior Kayla Thompson will defend her Thesis entitled "Am I Next”: On Gender-Based Violence and Digital Activism in the 21st Century in South Africa."

Join us in congratulating Professor Lennie Foy on his performance Sunday, April 24th, with the Gateways Music Festival O...
05/05/2022

Join us in congratulating Professor Lennie Foy on his performance Sunday, April 24th, with the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the first all-black orchestra to be presented by Carnegie Hall. Professor Foy represents the very best of our faculty! Congratulations on this significant achievement. He is pictured on your left.

02/01/2022

The Africana Studies program at DePauw University is pleased to announce Dr. Deadric Doc Williams as the 2022 Black History Month Speaker. Dr. Williams' talk will examine "Racism and the Mechanisms Maintaining Black Families' Income heterogeneity." Please use the following link to register for this event: https://depauw-edu.zoom.us/.../WN_u-mHWKv2QyC3K9RCo_bg2A

12/21/2021

Congratulations to Dr. Leigh-Anne Goins on earning tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor!

Prof. Angela N. Castañeda is the Lester Martin Jones Professor of Anthropology at DePauw University. Dr. Castañeda earne...
10/27/2021

Prof. Angela N. Castañeda is the Lester Martin Jones Professor of Anthropology at DePauw University. Dr. Castañeda earned her doctorate in Cultural Anthropology from Indiana University. Her teaching and research in Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and the U.S. explores religion, ritual, expressive culture and most recently, the cultural politics of reproduction, birth, and motherhood in the Americas. She has published on the performance of Afro-Caribbean identity, the commercialization of Afro-Brazilian religious traditions, and mothering in a neoliberal world. Dr. Castañeda’s work has appeared in publications including The Latin Americanist, Comparative Perspectives on Afro-America, The African Diaspora and the Study of Religion, and the Journal of Africana Religions. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana where she is a volunteer birth and postpartum doula for El Centro Comunal Latino.

Our very own, Dr. Clarissa Peterson, Prof. of Political Science.
09/17/2021

Our very own, Dr. Clarissa Peterson, Prof. of Political Science.

07/19/2021

Classical pianist Joshua Thompson focuses on playing only music by Black composers, hoping to reverse the genre's "exclusionary" reputation.

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