Armstead L. Robinson, Craig C. Foster, Donald H. Ogilvie, Ralph C. Dawson, Jr. Gates

Black Studies in the University

A Symposium
Herausgeber: Robinson, Armstead L; Ogilvie, Donald H; Foster, Craig C

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A founding document of African American Studies, reissued for today’s students and scholars

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Updated with New Forewords and an Introduction edition
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 140mm x 25mm
• ISBN-13: 9780300278989
• ISBN-10: 0300278985
• Artikelnr.: 72061156

Autorenporträt

Armstead L. Robinson (1947–1995) was a distinguished scholar of slavery and the collapse of the confederacy. In 1981 he founded the Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia, which he directed until his death. Craig C. Foster is a Yale Class of 1969 graduate. He is a member of the Ogilvie, Robinson, and DeChabert Advisory Board at Yale’s Afro-American Cultural Center. Donald H. Ogilvie (d. 2003) was a Yale Class of 1968 graduate and a community leader in New Haven, remembered for his part in establishing Yale’s Black Studies Department and founding the Afro-American Cultural Center. Ralph C. Dawson , a member of the Yale Class of 1971, was a student activist and campus leader instrumental in the establishment of Yale’s African-American Studies Major and its Afro-American Cultural Center. He was a leader of the Black Student Alliance at Yale. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. He is a Yale Class of 1973 graduate and was a leader in Yale’s Black Student Alliance. Farah Jasmine Griffin is the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.