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Carl DuPont is one of fifteen young scholars recognized in the 2018 Emerging Scholar list of the publication Diverse Issues in Higher Education. This annual recognition, now in its seventeenth year, is reserved for an exceptional group of minority scholars who represent the very best of the U.S. academy, have distinguished themselves in their various academic disciplines, and are...
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Congratulations to Dr. Gregory Mixon (History and AFRS affiliate faculty) who has received a 2018-19 Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant to teach and conduct research in a Canadian institution. Named for Senator William Fulbright, the Fulbright Program aims to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other Countries. It is the flagship international...
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THE INAUGURAL Africana Studies Founders Award
Herman E. Thomas
February 23, 2018
Cone University Center (Room 111)
Herman E. Thomas is the son of the late Mr. Albert M. Thomas and the late Mrs. Grace Parrish Thomas, both of Bryson City, N. C. He was educated in the public schools of...
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Call for Papers-3rd Tanure Ojaide International Conference (May 2-5, 2018)
University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria
Tanure Ojaide: Life, Literature, and the Environment
Tanure Ojaide, one of Africa’s most prolific scholar-poets, turns 70 in April. For nearly five decades, his literature, especially poetry, has been...
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What the ‘s—hole’ debate gets wrong about Africa
By Beth Elise Whitaker and Christopher Day
Monkey Cage - Analysis, The Washington Post, January 18 at 7:00 AM
Americans from across the political spectrum were quick to respond to President Trump’s alleged reference last...
HAITI: Caribbean Dignity Unbowed*
13 January 2018
The democratic, nation-building debt the American nation owes the Caribbean, and the Haitian nation in particular that resides at its core, is not expected to be repaid but must be respected. Any nation without a...
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The African Studies Association—a scholarly organization composed of over 2,000 university academics based in the United States, Europe and Africa – is outraged at President Trump’s characterization of African states as “shithole countries.” He is widely reported to have made this comment in conversation with members of Congress. It is shocking that such...
Graduates, Faculty, and Family Members [December 4, 2017]
FALL 2017 GRADUATES: AFRS MAJORS
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"UNC Charlotte at the Intersection of Black Studies in the Carolinas"
February 22-23, 2018
Thirteen years ago, the Department of Africana Studies was reconfigured as an integrated academic unit with a focus on the global, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the historical and contemporary experiences of Africa-...
