Building Black Futures Through
Black Study
About the Department of Black Study
Through trans/anti-disciplinary programming, community engagement, and curriculum, Black Study centers Black ways of knowing and being in this and other imagined worlds as they articulate through
1. Black Radical Traditions with an emphasis on Black Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies and Perspectives;
2. Black inventions, interventions, futurities, and abolition;
3. Africa and its Black Diasporas.
Spotlighted: Event
Spotlighted: Uplift
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Futurity as Praxis: Learning from Octavia E. Butler
Department Chair Sage Whitson and Associate Professor El/yse Ambrose were invited to moderate panels in this transdisciplinary conference.
Bold Visioning in Liberatory Praxis
The Department of Black Study emphasizes the verb “study” and stresses the engaged and embodied practice of teaching and research that is simultaneously diasporic, local, communal, planetary, historical, contemporary, and future-oriented and transgender-affirming. It is, therefore, necessarily transdisciplinary in scope, straddling various disciplines in the Social Sciences, Humanities, STEM, and the Arts. Black Study’s trans-disciplinarity is anchored in an intersectional lens, maintaining both symmetry and dissonance to seriously engage Black epistemologies, Black metaphysics, Black temporality, Black resistance, and Black social, cultural, creative, and spiritual life.
Our Program
Explore the Department of Black Study Curriculum
The B.A. degree consists of 56 units with requirements focused on the major social factors and movements impacting Black peoples in the African continent and its diasporas, as well as courses along the following themes:
- Critical Study in Black Lives;
- Arts, Cultures, and Imagination;
- Behavioral Sciences, Social Sciences, and Pasts;
- Building Black Liberation.