The Minor in African American Studies

Students minoring in African American Studies need to earn 18 hours of credit.

• 3 credits AFA 2000 Introduction to African American Studies
• 3 credits AFA 3110 Key Issues in African American & Black Atlantic Thought
• 6 credits of AFA courses at the 3000 level or higher
• 6 Credits of Integrative Seminars AFA 4936 and AFA 4937

Themes

Interdisciplinarity

Community based learning

African American experience in a transnational context

Analytic,writing, & research presentation skills and development

Specific Courses

AFA 2000 Introduction to African American Studies

AFA 3110 Key Issues in African American & Black Atlantic Thought

AFA 3240 The African Diaspora

AFA 3332 Black Feminist & Womanist Theory

AFA 3360 African American Archaeology

AFA 3363 The Black Experience: Psychological Perspectives

AFA 3850 Research Methods in African American History

AFA 3915 Mentoring at Risk Youth

AFA 3930 Domestic Violence in the Black Community

AFA 3930 Booker T Washington & W.E.B. Dubois

AFA 3930 The Slave Narrative

AFA 4936 and 4937 Integrative Senior Seminar

Contact

Dr. Sharon Austin, polssdw@ufl.edu
104 Walker Hall; 352-392-3060

Required Reading for Core Introductory Course

Below are sample reading lists that form the core of the minor program. This list reflects the faculty's expertise and acknowledgement of an interdisciplinary knowledge base that comprises the theory and practice of African American intellectual pursuits.

Books

• Conyers, James. Ed. (1997). Africana Studies: A Disciplinary Quest for Both Theory and Method.
• DuBois, W.E.B. (1903). The Souls of Black Folk. 1997 Bedford reprint, with Blight introduction.
• Fanon, Frantz. (1968). Black Skin, White Masks.
• Marable, Manning Ed. (2000). Dispatches from the Ebony Tower, Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience.
• Morrison, Toni. (1994). The Bluest Eye.
• Normant, Nathaniel. Ed. (2001). The African American Studies Reader.
• Wright, Richard. (1951). Black Boy.

Recommended Reading

Below is a list of recommended books for students interested in African American studies.

Books

• Angelou, Maya. (1969). I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 1997 Bantam reprint.
• Asante, Molefi. (1987). Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change.
• Cleaver, Eldridge. (1968). Soul on Ice.
• Cruse, Harold. (1967). The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual.
• DuBois, W.E.B. (1907). “St. Francis of Assisi.” (Address delivered at the Joint Commencement Exercises of Miner Normal School, M Street High School, and Armstrong Manual Training School, Washington, D.C.) in Readings from Negro Authors (1931) edited by O. Cromwell, L. D. Turner, and E. B. Dykes.
• Dubois, W. E. B. (1996). Dubois Writings (collected works, contains: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade, The Souls of Black Folk, Dusks of Dawn, and
  Essays and Articles). The Library of America, New York.
• Fanon, Frantz. (1963). The Wretched of the Earth. 1977 Grove reprint.
• Genovese, Eugene. (1976). Roll, Jordan, Roll, The World The Slaves Made.
• Grier, W. H. and Cobbs, P.M. (1969). Black Rage.
• Herskovits, Melville. (1941). The Myth of the Negro Past. 1990 Beacon Press reprint.
• Levine, Lawrence. (1977). Black Culture and Black Consciousness, Afro-American Folk
  Thought from Slavery to Freedom.
• Herskovitz, Melville. (1966). The New World Negro: Selected Papers in Afroamerican Studies.
• Karenga, Maulana. (1993). Introduction to Black Studies.
• King, Martin Luther. (1964). Why We Can’t Wait.
• Mintz, Sidney. (1976). The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological
  Perspective. 1992 reprint.
• Welsing, Frances Cress. (1991). The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors. 2004 paperback.

Journal Articles

(Available through UF databases: JSTOR, Academic Search Premiere, etc.)

• Babson, David. (1990). “The Archaeology of Racism and Ethnicity on Southern Plantations.” Historical Archaeology.
• Clarkson, Thomas. (1786). An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species. [electronic resource]. Dublin: printed by P. Byrne, and W. Porter.
• Epperson, Terrence. (1999). “The Contested Commons: Archaeologies of Race, Repression, and Resistance” in New York City in Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism edited by Mark P. Leone and Parker B. Potter
• Franklin, John Hope. (1986). “On the Evolution of Scholarship in Afro-American History,” in The State of Afro-American History edited by Darlene Clark Hine
• Franklin, Maria. (1997). “Power to the People”: Sociopolitics and the Archaeology of Black Americans. Historical Archaeology.
• Hall, Perry. (1996). “Introducing African-American Studies: Systematic and Thematic Principles.” Journal of Black Studies.
• Hudson, Herman. (1972). “The Black Studies Program: Strategy and Structure.” The Journal of Negro Education.
• Hunter, Herbert. (1983). “Oliver C. Cox” A Biographical Sketch of His Life and Work. Phylon.
• Mullins, Paul. (1999). “Race and the Genteel Consumer: Class and African-American Consumption, 1850-1930.” Historical Archaeology.
• Mullins, Paul. (2001). “Racializing the Parlor: Race and Victorian Bric-Brac Consumption.” in Race and the Archaeology of Identity edited by Charles Orser, pp. 158-176.
• Okafor, Victor. 1992. “A Reevaluation of African Education: Woodson Revisited.” Journal of Black Studies.
• Potter, Parker. (1991). “What is the Use of Plantation Archaeology?” Historical
  Archaeology.
• Semmes, Clovis. (1981). “Foundations of an Afrocentric Social Science: Implications for Curriculum Building, Theory, and Research in Black Studies.” Journal of Black Studies.
• Schiller, Naomi. (2000). “A Short History of Black Feminist Scholars.” The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education.
• Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society. (2000). Theme issue, "Theorizing Black Studies."
• Stewart, James. (1984). “The Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois for Contemporary Black Studies. Journal of Negro Education.

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