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Degree Requirements

DAAS Honors Major

Wangari Maathai Essay Competition

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Funding Opportunities

Accelerated MA Program in Transcultural Studies

What Our Students Say

DAAS Graduate Certificate Program

MIRS: African Studies Specialization

Fellowship and Grant Funding

Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Fellowship

DAAS SAIO Fellowship for an Incoming Graduate Student

SAIO Summer Research Grant for Current Graduate Students

GSI & GSSA Job Postings

News and Events

First DAAS Africa Workshop

Legacy: Art Across Generations Gallery Opening

Uncommon Connections: Aesthetics, Anthro/History, Health

Vibrancy of Silence: A Discussion with My Sisters

2017 DAAS Graduation

DAAS Africa Workshop: March 27, 2018

DAAS Africa Workshop: April 10, 2018

JIT Exchange Performance

GalleryDAAS Opening Reception

Value the Voice: September 18, 2018

Thank You, Dona Arbor

GalleryDAAS Winter Student Art Show

Africa Workshop Winter 2019

The Dream the Dreamers Dreamed

DAAS @ Trotter on State

2019 The Annual Zora Neale Hurston lecture for the Humanities

DAAS Fall Reception and Gallery Opening

Global Blackness Symposium - Mobilizing “Blackness” From the Haitian Revolution to Now

Ujima: Collective Activism at the University of Michigan

“Ujima: Collective Activism at The University of Michigan” Opens at DAAS Gallery

50th Anniversary Postponement

Now in GalleryDAAS: "Half-Built House" by Laura Taylor

Actress Omowunmi Dada brings Nollywood flair to U-M

DAAS hosts Natasha Gordon-Chipembere for Diasporic Dialogues

Derek Peterson among 24 awarded $625,000 by MacArthur Foundation

Scott Ellsworth Featured in Vanderbilt News

Tiya Miles featured in The Detroit Free Press

Dr. Naomi André Receives 7th Annual Shirley Verrett Award

Heather Ann Thompson Article in Newsweek

Heather Ann Thompson on America’s Prisons

Lorna Goodison in BBC World Service

Gender Consciousness Project Students Interview on Michigan Radio

Robin R. Means Coleman interviewed by Horror News Network

Tiya Miles Writes for The New York Times

Yale awards eight writers $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prizes

How a South Carolina Prison Riot Really Went Down

Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France

Magdalena J. Zaborowska featured in Duke University Press

Frieda Ekotto, DAAS Chair, honored at Colorado College

Kelly Askew Calls On Vice-Chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology

Lecturer Nesha Haniff featured in the Detroit Free Press

Heather Ann Thompson featured in Newsweek

New Book by Elisha Renne, Professor Emerita

Bénédicte Boisseron, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Book Featured in Columbia University Press Blog

HIV Monologues talks ending stigmas, education

Omolade Adunbi, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Featured in ICiR Nigeria

Magdalena J. Zaborowska, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Talks About Book

Magdalena J. Zaborowska, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, on BBC's The Forum

Adam Ashforth, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Publishes Book

Amal Fadlalla, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies, Publishes Book

Frieda Ekotto, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Comparative Literature, Publishes Book

Vincent Hutchings, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Featured in the Los Angeles Times

Amal Hassan Fadlalla, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Anthropology, Featured in BBC Interview

Heather Ann Thompson, Professor of Afroamerican and African studies, Featured in The New York Times

Naomi André, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Publishes Book

Amal Hassan Fadlalla, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Anthropology, Interviewed by BBC

Naomi André, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Women’s studies, and the Residential College, Featured in CNN

Frieda Ekotto, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Comparative Literature, Featured in The World News

Julius Scott III, Lecturer of Afroamerican and African Studies, Featured in Public Books

Bénédicte Boisseron, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Featured in BAR Book Forum

Damani J. Partridge, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies, Featured in Public Culture

Derek Peterson, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and History, Featured in New Vision

Anne Pitcher, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Featured in the Washington Post

Amal Hassan Fadlalla, Associate Professor Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies, Featured on BBC Newsday

Naomi André, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Women's Studies, Featured in The New York Times

Michael Awkward, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Talks About the Impact Toni Morrison Left on Contemporary African American Experience

Amal Hassan Fadlalla, Associate Professor Anthropology & Afroamerican and African Studies, Featured on Africa Up Close

Amal Hassan Fadlalla, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies, Featured in Al Jazeera News

Faculty Spotlight: Oluwatoyin Olanipekun

Heather Thompson, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and History, Featured in The Buffalo News

Naomi André, Professor of Afroamerican and African studies, Women’s studies and the Residential College, Featured in the New York Times

Amal Hassan Fadlalla, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Anthropology, & Women's Studies, Talks About Sudan’s new Prime Minister

Derek Peterson, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, and History, Featured in The Guardian (U.K.)

Naomi André, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Women's Studies, Publishes Eulogy About Jessye Norman

Anne Pitcher, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Political Science, Featured in The Washington Post

Heather Ann Thompson, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and History, Featured On Michigan Radio

In Memoriam: Fernando Arenas

Scott Ellsworth, Lecturer, Featured in The Atlantic

Alford A. Young, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, and Sociology, Publishes Book

Omolade Adunbi, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Featured in Recent Issue of Africa

In Memory: Evans Young

Professor Damani Partridge explores the universality of Blackness in recent article, podcast

Omolade Adunbi discusses recent book with Global China Pulse

DAAS Professor Frieda Ekotto Honored with LSA Collegiate Professorship

DAAS Congratulates Recent Grads of 2016!

Nick Powell, DAAS Major, Writes About Tunde Wey's “Blackness in America” Dinner Project

Student Spotlight

DAAS in Dialogue

The History and Future of Black Studies and BLM: DAAS at 50

DAAS 2021 Course Offerings

Event Spotlight: Isabel Wilkerson’s book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”

New DAAS Faculty

The Pre Kwanzaa Celebration

DAAS Kwanzaa Celebration

DAAS Spotlight: In Conversation with Emmanuel Saint-Phard, Alum

DAAS Spotlight: In Conversation with Thomas Vance, DAAS Major

DAAS Spotlight: In Conversation with Nora Krinitsky, Director of the Carceral State Project

Giving Blueday 2021

Heather Ann Thompson, DAAS Professor, Receives the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship

Tiffany Harris, Recent DAAS Graduate, Featured in The Record

Damani J. Partridge, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies, Publishes Article in the University of Chicago Press

Faculty Spotlight: Bénédicte Boisseron

“Roots, Routes, and Performative Mobilities: The Next 50 Years of Knowledge Production for Africa and its Diasporas”

Student Spotlight: Ashley Hayes

DAAS Spotlight: In Conversation with Kelly Askew

New Book by Sandra Gunning, Professor Afroamerican and African Studies

Honoring Attica After Half a Century

Faculty Spotlight: Heather Thompson

Faculty Spotlight: Justine Davis

Faculty Spotlight: Scott Poulson-Bryant

Africa Workshop with R. Nanre Nafziger

Aliyah Khan, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, talks Halaloween

In Memory: Julius Scott

DAAS Africa Workshop: November 9, 2021

45+ Years Researching the Tulsa Race Massacre - Scott Ellsworth

DAAS Diasporic Dialogues with André Brock - On Race and Technoculture

Faculty Spotlight: Aliyah Khan

Alumni Spotlight: A. Sheree Brown

Student Spotlight: Sewit Yohannes

Niara Sudarkasa: Woman of Many Firsts

Amal Hassan Fadlalla, Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies, Publishes Chapter in New Book

Omolade Adunbi, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, featured in a PBS Great Decisions

DAAS Statement on Threats to HBCUs

Professor Naomi Andre presents testimony in support of HR 301

Stephen Ward, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Named Recipient 1 of 6 Teams awarded an Anti-Racist Digital Research Initiative Grant

The Power of Collective Activism: In Memory of Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.

Staff Spotlight: Chanelle Davis

Giving Blueday 2022

Professor Sandra Gunning speaks on NPR's Stateside

Assistant Professor SaraEllen Strongman discusses the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings and Black sisterhood

Professor Stephen Ward speaks on Detroit's census data

Professor Heather Thompson sues NY prisons over ban of Attica uprising book

Associate Professor Omolade Adunbi releases new book on Nigeria

Professor Damani Partridge assists overtaxed Detroit homeowners

Faculty Spotlight: Omolade Adunbi

DAAS Professor Damani Partridge receives Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award

Interview with Dr. Naomi André for “Lift Every Voice and Sing”

Professor Damani Partridge publishes article on White space in Black cities

Assistant Professor SaraEllen Strongman speaks on Black feminists and abortion rights

DAAS Professor Heather Thompson receives LSA Research grant

Interview with Dr. Sandra Gunning on new book “Moving Home: Gender, Travel, and Self-Invention in Nineteenth-Century African Diasporic Literature”

New Website Created by Dr. Elisha P. Renne: Queen Amina Embroidery

Summer 2022 Anti-Racist Book Club, Featuring Works by Audre Lorde

Many Urbanisms: Divergent Trajectories of Global City Building by Dr. Martin J. Murray

Q&A With the Chair

A Powerful Arts Legacy in Detroit

Student Spotlight: Noah Gross

How Democrats and Republicans Could be Getting the Suburbs Wrong

Why Should a Married Man Fetch Water?

Meet Danielle Williams

Work begins on U-M’s Inclusive History Project

DAAS Chair Moderates Communities and Connection Panel

DAAS' Poulson-Bryant Interviews Renowned Production Designer for "Wondering Wakanda"

Faculty Spotlight: Lydia Kelow-Bennett

DAAS cosponsors event featuring Nikki Giovanni

Multiple DAAS faculty participate in "The Future of Black Studies"

Faculty Spotlight: Marko Mwipopo

Black Studies Matter

Kidada E. Williams delivers 2023 Zora Neale Hurston Lecture

Wayne High receives 2023 Cornerstone, LSA CA awards

New department chair Bénédicte Boisseron looks to the future

DAAS Spotlight: Omowunmi Dada

Alum's Gift Establishes New DAAS Senior Prize

LSA Sustainability Spotlight on AAS 498 with Bénédicte Boisseron

DAAS Student Awards Honor Outstanding Projects

Faculty Spotlight: Gaëtan Thomas, Lecturer in DAAS and History of Art

Brianna Kennedy, a Senior DAAS Major, Featured in Harvard Journal for African American Public Policy

Congratulations Graduates!

Student Voices: DAAS Needs Your Input!

Ja'Nelle Jefferson, DAAS Alumna, Opens Wellness Clinic

Sarah Hodin, Alumna, Starts Nonprofit

Staff Spotlight: Kehinde Enilolobo, Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant (Yoruba)

Elizabeth James, Program Coordinator, Featured in The Michigan Daily

Staff Spotlight: Jaleesa Miller

Staff Spotlight: Rebecca Jackson

What does DAAS mean to you?

Statement from the Chair

Anne Pitcher to be Vice President of African Studies Association

Kwasi Ampene to be Diasporan Fellow at University of Ghana

Prof. Tiya Miles on How to Talk to Children About the Accomplishments of African American Women

Meg Sweeney Awarded Institute for the Humanities Fellowship

Martha Jones in University Record

Frieda Ekotto Receives Benezet Award

Larry Rowley to Receive Cornerstone Award

Martha S. Jones Authors Article on the Increasing Political Power of Black Women in the U.S.

Robin Means Coleman Quoted in Huffington Post

Lorna Goodison awarded Shirley Verrett Award

Professor Dorceta Taylor Interviewed on NPR

Kelly Askew on Michigan Radio

Tiya Miles and the History of Slavery in Detroit.

Frieda Ekotto interviewed by Michigan Daily

Martha Jones on Ferguson on Huffington Post

Kelly Askew Featured in URecord

Robin Means Coleman in Huffington Post

Frieda Ekotto Recognized by U-M Council on Global Engagement

DAAS Mourns Loss of Former Director Ali Al'amin Mazrui

DAAS Faculty Participate in Schlissel Inauguration

DAAS Welcomes New Chair

James Jackson to serve on NSF National Science Board

Benedito Machava Receives Reseach Fellowship

Elisha Renne in the New Yorker

Howard Stein Quoted in Irish Times

Poet Maya Angelou Dies at 86

Angela Dillard to be Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education

DAAS Faculty Members Selected to Join Michigan Society of Fellows

Liz Cole to be Assistant Dean of Social Sciences

Martha Jones in Wall Street Journal and CNN

Martha Jones on NPR

Ketra Armstrong Awarded a Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award

Tyrell Collier Named a Student of the Year

Dorceta Taylor Receives Carol Hollenshead Award

Elizabeth James Receives Harold R. Johnson Diversity Award

Wayne High Receives LSA Staff Spotlight Award

Robin Means Coleman Receives UROP Outstanding Mentor Award

Melba Boyd on Craig Fahle Show

Scott Kurashige on Tavis Smiley Radio Show

Martha Jones in the Huffington Post

Nesha Haniff and Nyambura Mpesha Nominated for Golden Apple

The Guardian Chooses Lorna Goodison Poem

DAAS Minor Zaineb Abdul-Nabi Appears on Oscars

Jon Onye Lockard Art Exhibit at U-M Hospital

Martha Jones quoted in Aljazeera about Wright Museum

Megan Sweeney awarded Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship

Martha Jones CNN Essay Receives Huge Response

Black History Month Calendar

DAAS Task Force Raising $25,000 for Students

Dorceta Taylor: Toxic Communities

The History of Race at the University of Michigan

Mapping Slavery in Detroit

Frieda Ekotto Awarded the Nicolás Guillén Award for Philosophical Literature

Lorna Goodison's "Supplying Salt and Light" Named Best Book

Wayne High Named Finalist for LSA Award

Elizabeth James Publishes Article on Detroit

Faye Portis Named Finalist for LSA Award

DAAS Mourns Nelson Mandela

DAAS Wins Award from the Black Volunteer Network

Fernando Arenas receives Michigan Humanities Awards

Magda Zaborowska Receives Michigan Humanities Award

Ray Silverman Wins New Grant

Anne Pitcher receives Honorable Mention

Derek Peterson Wins Melville J. Herskovits Award

Kelly Askew Presents at MCubed Conference

Martin Murray's Book Honored

Nesha Hanif Recognized by the Council on Global Engagement

Larry Rowley Awarded Distinguished Diversity Leaders Award

Scott Ellsworth Awarded Professional Development Grant

Senior Vice Provost Lester Monts Honored by U-M Marching Band

Understanding Race Theme Semester Co-Chairs Given DDLA Award

Derek Peterson Wins 2013 Martin A. Klein Prize

Sherie Randolph Receives Residency Fellowship at James Weldon Johnson Institute

Mary Sibande Exhibit Featured in University Record

Letter from Vice President Royster Harper to U-M Students

History of Student Protests on U-M Campus

Kelly Askew Produces Documentary Film

Kevin Gaines plaintiff in lawsuit to overturn Affirmative Action Ban

Lorna Goodison on PBS News Hour

Ray Silverman Quoted in The Detroit News

Lorna Goodison Receives National Award

Alice Walker Accepts CEW/DAAS Invitation to Speak at U-M

Martha Jones Interviewed on AHA Blog

Naomi Andre Named to Board of Ann Arbor Symphony

UM-Dearborn adds major in African and African American Studies

Provost's Statement on Alice Walker Invitation

"The Chairman and the Lions" wins two awards

Robin Means Coleman featured on Rackham Blog

Stephen Ward on NPR

Tiya Miles awarded Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship

Kelly Askew's Film Wins First Prize

DAAS students selected for prestigious Fulbright program

Lorna Goodison poem selected by the Poetry in the Underground Program in London

Amal Fadlalla has been awarded a Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowship

Assistant Professor Sherie Randolph named an IRWG Junior Faculty Scholar

Associate Professor Derek Peterson selected as an Eisenberg Institute Fellow

Martha Jones awarded two fellowships

Black Student Union names award after DAAS Program Coordinator; Elizabeth James

DAAS Major Michael Williams to be NYC Urban Fellow

Martha Jones honored with an Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship

African Studies Center Awarded Mellon Grant

Race Card Project in Detroit News

Robert Chrisman, founder of The Black Scholar, has died

LSA Today features DAAS history

Frieda Ekotto Receives PICS Fellowship

Tiya Miles on The Craig Fahle Show

Article on former DAAS Fellow Tanisha Ford

Martha Jones article on Understanding Race on the Huffington Post blog

DAAS Students Receive 2013 Spirit Award

Ann Arbor News Reviews Buchanan Exhibit

Voice of America African Music Collection (Leo Sarkisian collection)

DAAS community saddened at loss of Professor Hanes Walton

Melba Boyd wins 2013 Michigan Notable Book Award

Anne Pitcher Elected Chair of the African Politics Conference Group

Congratulations to Professor David Doris on winning the Melville J. Herskovits Award

Tiya Miles' Op Piece on Colorism on CNN's "In America"

Chair Tiya Miles interviewed in Indian Country Today

Professor Dorceta Taylor Lead Investigator of New Study

President Mary Sue Coleman announces new funding commitment to the African Studies Center

Professor Robin Wilson wins Shirley Verrett Award

DAAS Professor Martin Murray finalist for the 2013 Herskovits Award

Exhibit Opening:Arewa House, Kaduna

DAAS Professor David Doris a finalist for the Herskovits Award

DAAS and RC alumna Erin Winkler publishes book on African American Childhoods

Fellowships in Race, Law & History

DAAS Chair Tiya Miles featured in CNN In America opinion article: Why focus on Gabby Douglas' hair?

DAAS Student Services Coordinator Katherine Weathers and DAAS Professor Stephen Ward awarded the Cornerstone Award

DAAS Summer Course Development Awards awarded to four DAAS faculty members

DAAS Professor Lorna Goodison honored with 2012 Cultural Medal of Honour Award

Semester in Detroit

Two DAAS faculty members awarded the 2012 Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award

DAAS Associate Chair Elisha Renne awarded Guggenheim Fellowship for 2012-2013

DAAS Concentrator Michael Williams awarded Raul Wallenberg International Fellowship

Professor Scott Ellsworth speaks on NPR Radio about the 1921 Riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma and the History Of Race Relations

DAAS awarded 2012 NAACP Image Award

AAS 111 GSI POSTING FOR FALL TERM 2012

PhD Candidate David Green Jr. awarded Visual and Pop Culture Pre-Doctoral Dissertation Award

DAAS Chair Tiya Miles featured in CNN In America opinion article

DAAS Associate Chair Elisha Renne awarded grant for International IA Pilot-Study Project

DAAS Professor Kelly Askew featured on Spotlight Africa show

We Fought the Law.... DAAS 495 Race Law Stories

DAAS Program Associate Elizabeth James and the story of her life saving transplant

DAAS Alumna Shanesha Brooks Tatum releases book Reading African American Experiences in the Obama Era: Theory, Advocacy, Activism

DAAS Chair Miles to appear on National Public Radio

DAAS Chair Tiya Miles' blog in Huffington Post about the need to protect Belle Isle.

DAAS Prof. Larry Rowley featured speaker at MLK event

DAAS Program Associate; third generation storyteller performed at the 14th anniversary of the University of Michigan’s MLK Children and Youth Program.

Dr. King's Vision for Economic Justice: Focus on Detroit

Two DAAS professors honored for their contributions to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial

DAAS Professor Amal Fadlalla talks about Sudan's Secession and the Future Ahead

DAAS Professor Scott Ellsworth and DAAS Students Launch Wallenberg Project

DAAS Professor Kevin Gaines featured on C-Span

Chair Tiya Miles named to Ebony Magazine's Power 100 List

Post-Doctoral Fellow Tanisha Ford finalist for the OAH Lerner-Scott Prize for the best dissertation in U.S. women's history.

Prof. Vincent Hutchings appears on National Public Radio's Morning Edition to speak about Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain

AAS 458 Students hold Skype session with Civil Rights pioneer

Chair Tiya Miles is the only African American Woman among the 22 MacArthur fellows across country!

DAAS Chair Tiya Miles has been awarded the Erminie Wheeler-Voeglin Book Award

Prof. Raymond Silverman awarded Quest for Excellence Award

AAS 458 Southern Novel Class Takes Part in Banned Books Reading

DAAS Concentrator and U-M Back-Up Quarterback Devin Gardner featured in Wall Street Journal

Professor Martha Jones receives 2011 Harold R. Johnson Diversity Award

Professors Chaffers and Professor Lockard played vital role in MLK memorial design

Report from DAAS Graduate Certificate in African Studies

DAAS Welcomes Professor Scott Kurashige

DAAS Welcomes University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars

Tiya Miles on Black Freedmen expulsion from Cherokee Nation

DAAS Chair, Tiya Miles, Named 2011 MacArthur Fellow

Professor Kelly Askew Awarded Fellowship in Berlin

Archived Events

Opening Reception: Textile Trade Ascendancies: Nigeria, UK, China

Who Owns The Oil?

Round table: African Artists Visualizing Africa

Children's Workshop,<i>Chameleon Street</i> film screening, and Q & A w/the artist<br><i>The Crown: Contemporary Construction of Self in America</i>

Black Feminist Think Tank: A Symposium

Opening Reception<br><i>The Crown: Contemporary Construction of Self in America</i><br>Photographs

<i>The Crown: Contemporary Construction of Self in America</i><br>Photographs

Taking Back the X, Bringing Back the Love

A LOVE SUPREME at 50: John Coltrane, Malcolm X, and the Sounds of '65”

Songs of Kwezhi

Africa Workshop

Chris Tounsel and Pedro Monaville

MLK Event: Film Screening

MLK Event: James Chaffers

MLK Event: Ta-Nehisi Coates

MLK Event: Martha Jones

Dr. Ijeoma Nnodim Opara

Child of the Dream: Living a Healthy Life after U-M

MLK Event: Heidi Morse

CITIES DIVIDED: THE PERSISTENCE OF SEGREGATION

Diaporic Dialogues

Africa Workshop

Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration

Africa Workshop

Panel featuring Gillian Berchowitz

Africa Workshop

Lecture by Isabel Hofmeyr

Zora Neale Hurston Lecture with Alice Walker

A Reading in Honor of Lorna Goodison's Retirement

Conversation with Lorna Goodison

In Honor of Lorna Goodison's Retirement: Edward Baugh & Jahan Ramazani In Conversation

DAAS Student-Faculty Open House

Looking Back, Looking Forward: A Dialogue on Ferguson

Diasporic Dialogues

Beyond Ebola Roundtable

Diasporic Dialogues

Africa Workshop with Jean Allman

African Studies Center Reception

Educator's Workshop on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the Teaching of her Works

GalleryDAAS Artist Talk: William Adjété Wilson

African Culture: A Royal Perspective

Diasporic Dialogues with the POA

Africa Workshop with Rita Abrahamsen

Michigan Journal of Race & Law and the Michigan Law Program in Race, Law & History

GalleryDAAS Reception for William Adjété Wilson

And Endlessly, I Create Myself: William-Adjété Wilson and The Black Ocean

The Role of a Queen Mother in Asante Culture

DAAS Welcome Reception

DAAS Graduation

Film Screening: Filming the Future of Detroit

Film Screening: Filming the Future of Detroit

DAAS Diasporic Dialogues: Rebecca Scott

Digital Medias, New Cinemas, and the Global South

Africa Workshop: Clapperton Mavhungu

In Search of A Better World

GalleryDAAS: Ed West Artist Talk

Diasporic Dialogues: Aliyah Khan

Theme Semester Lecture Series: Ship Sister to Mannish Woman: Queer Indo-Caribbean Biomythographies

Africa Workshop: Zanele Muholi

GalleryDAAS: Photographs by Ed West

Zora Neale Hurston Lecture: Sharon Holland

Jasmine Johnson Dance lecture

Living Writers Series: Lorna Goodison

Diasporic Dialogues: Matthew Smith

Africa Workshop: Magali Compan-Banard

African American Workshop: Christopher Parker

African American Workshop: Martha Biondi

Diasporic Dialogues: Reighan Gillam

Africa Workshop: Ciraj Rassool

Africa Workshop: Sylvie Kande

Caribbean Dialogues: Fernando Arenas

Africa Workshop: Sarah Charlton

12 Years a Slave Roundtable Film Discussion

Scott Kurashige DAAS Talk

Caribbean Dialogues: “How We Came to Love Kingston"

DAAS Student-Faculty Bingo

Poet Robert Hayden: A Centennial Conference

Robert Hayden and the Art of Poetry

DAAS Living Poets Series: Melba Joyce Boyd

“American Revolutionary” film screening

Detroit: Movement City Symposium

Film on Angola by Marissa Moorman (History-Indiana University)

African American Workshop: Chinua Thelwell

Africa Workshop: Marissa Moorman

African Social Research Initiative (ASRI) Biannual Conference

Africa Workshop: Aimé Césaire 100th Birthday Symposium

Community Engaged Learning Symposium

Charles Long dialogue with Paul Johnson

Africa Workshop: Jane Guyer

GalleryDAAS Opening Reception: Mary Sibande

“Faubourg Treme” documentary

GalleryDAAS Brown Bag: Mary Sibande

Transforming Violence and Conflict into Hope and Innovation

Matthew Vernon Talk

Thomas DeFrantz talk

Africa Workshop: Morton Jerven

Welcome Reception

Conference: Conflict, Legitimacy and Authoritarian Rule

Race Card Project Pop-Up Exhibit is back!

Africa Workshop: Fassil Demissie

A Political History of Heroin Addiction: Race, Crime and the Fractured Liberalism of Methadone Maintenance and Harm Reduction in New York City, 1963-1973

Africa Workshop: Didier Peclard

Duke Ellington's orchestral suite Black, Brown, and Beige

Race, Democracy and Social Control:A Grounded Theory of Racial Justice

Keeping the past in lively memory: On King, Black Studies, and Trauma

Sakina Hughes Gives Culinary Talk

National Book Award Winner Nikky Finney Poetry Reading

National Book Award Winner Nikky Finney Poetry Round Table

Africa Workshop: Nicolas Van De Walle

Africa Workshop: What is African Art?

Florynce 'Flo' Kennedy and Black Feminist Radicalism

Toni Tipton-Martin, "The Jemima Code: A Gallery of Great Cooks Share Their Secrets"

Earth, Sky, Water, Fire: Stories of the Americas

The Making of the Dream: MLK, Detroit, and U-M

Africa Workshop - Ken Harrow

The Roundtable - IndiVisible: African Native American Lives in the Americas

The Exhibit: IndiVisible: African Native American Lives in the Americas

The Chairman and the Lions

African Print Cultures workshop

African Print Cultures workshop

Africa Workshop: “The Spell that Fails Lacks an Essential Term: on the Nature of Curative Intent in Poetry” w/ Adeleke Adeeko

DAAS Open House for Students

Jamaica Forum for Lesbians All-Sexuals and Gays

All in the Family: Beverly Buchanan Art Reception & Exhibit

Beverly Buchanan Art Exhibit

Africa Workshop with Ebenezer Obadare

Proclaiming Emancipation: The Conference

Presidential Debate Viewing Party

"Hometown Security" with Majora Carter

African American Studies Workshop with Erica Edwards

Proclaiming Emancipation: The Exhibit

DAAS Community Forum

Africa Workshop with Rachel Riedl

African American Studies Workshop: “New Directions in African American Studies: Gender, Race and Sexuality”

"The Prophecy of James Baldwin” with Professor David Leeming

“James Baldwin: From Another Place” Film Screening

Africa Workshop with Ronald Labonté

Malick Ghachem Job Talk

Liberation Film Series: Prof. Stephen Ward

DAAS Welcome Reception

U-M Commencement and Black Celebratory

DAAS Commencement Ceremony

DAAS Faculty Brown Bag: Tanisha Ford

Women Visualizing Africa Film Series: La femme invisible (The Invisible Woman) and Calypso at Dirty Jim’s

African American and African Diaspora Workshop presents "Black Radicalism"

DAAS Faculty Brown Bags

African Musics Roundtable: Music in Sub-Saharan Africa Today

African American and the African Diaspora Workshop with Elizabeth Cole

Africa Workshop with Peter Alegi,"FIFAnomics and South African Nationalism:

Africa Workshop with John Ryle “Two Sudans: Will Separation work?”

DAAS Faculty Brown Bag: Prof. Karyn Lacy

Zora Neale Hurston “Pearl Primus: Dancing Democracy, Dancing Freedom (1943-1953)"

"Who's in Charge?: Deconstructing Black Leadership in America"

Woman Visualizing Africa Film Series: Cuba: An African Odyssey

"Property and Political Order: Land Rights and the Structure of Politics." Africa Workshop with Cathy Boone

“Teach Trane?” A Music Dialogue with Julius Scott

DAAS Faculty Brown Bag: Jessica Welburn

Woman Visualizing Africa Film Series: The Witches of Gambaga

South Sudan: Nationhood and the Challenges Ahead Round Table

DAAS Valentine's Day

Africa Workshop with Katarzyna Pieprzak

Poetry reading and discussion on writing with Audrey Petty

“Revisioning the Life of Coretta Scott King”

African American Workshop: "For Such a Time as This": New Testaments on the Black Atlantic Paradigm”

“Birders of a Feather: Stories of People, Birds, and Other People in Africa”

Women Visualizing Africa Film Series: Les enfants du blanc (Children of the White Man)

Women Visualizing Africa Film Series: Notre étrangère

The Author’s Forum Presents:The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story

DAAS Faculty Brown Bag: Patricia Coleman Burns

University of Michigan’s MLK Children and Youth Program

Annual MLK Lecture on Environmental Justice:“Building on Past Pillars to a New Generation of Activism”

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Symposium (no classes)

Keynote Memorial Lecture

"Dr. King's Vision for Economic Justice: Focus on Detroit"

Women Visualizing Africa Film Series: Paris mon Paradis

DAAS Faculty Brown Bags: Prof. Magdalena Zaborowska

Africa Workshop: Severine Rugumamu

DAAS Women's Film Series:Daughters of the Dust

Monday Movies: The Spook Who Sat By the Door

Monday Movies: Stormy Weather

Gallery DAAS- Last Day for Fall 2011

DAAS Faculty Brown Bag: Professor Scott Ellsworth

DAAS Open House

Africa Workshop: Sawyer Seminar Workshop

A Conversation with Callaloo Publisher Charles Rowell

DAAS Women's Film Series: Beloved

Africa Workshop: Kwesi Yankah

Lemuel A. Johnson Center Opening Robin Means Coleman Book Signing Monday Movies: Blacula

Black Alumni Reception

Living Poets: Roundtable Discussion

Black Alumni Speed Networking with Students (Reception)

African American Studies Workshop: Penny Von Eschen

Monday Movies: Brian's Song

DAAS Faculty Brown Bag: Julius Scott

Africa Workshop: Mary Moran

Monday Movies: Sounder

Prof. James A. Chaffers - SPACESPIRIT

DAAS Women's Film Series: Sankoka

DAAS Community Forum

African American Studies Workshop: Matthew Countryman

Monday Movies: Imitation of Life

“ECO Girls Presents a GoGirl Dance Party” at Trotter for Shoots (4th-6th grade group of ECO Girls)

“ECO Girls Presents a GoGirl Dance Party” at Trotter for Roots (2nd-3rd grade group of ECO Girls)

DAAS Faculty Brown Bags: Vincent Hutchings

DAAS Welcome Reception

Africa Workshop: James Ferguson

Monday Movies: Shaft

DAAS Celebration at Detroit Center

Graduation Photos 2016

Affiliated Faculty

Retired Faculty

Visiting Fellows

Alumni and Friends

DAAS Newsletter

Lemuel Johnson Center

Africa Workshops

Adinkra Symbols

Carceral State Project

Tulsa Race Massacre

2021 Graduation