Masters in African American Studies

This program is a field rooted in the study of social meaning, art, and political life, produced under particular conditions and by people with both ascriptive and interior identifications with Africanness or blackness. These particular conditions take various forms, but at a foundational level consist of the encounter between the black subject and the historic juridical, economic and global political order that deems or treats her as liminal, appropriate for exploitation/subjugation and/or ancillary or supplemental to the idea of the person or human.