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  • gatescwaward

    Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. honored with the 2018 Common Wealth Award along with Joseph Biden and Ron Chernow

  • Terry and Shelby To make a new world

    To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Edited by Professors Tommie Shelby and Brandon M. Terry

  • Meiu

    "Ethno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money and Belonging in Kenya"

    Prof. Meiu looks at the "effects of markets of ethnic culture and sexuality on a wide range of aspects of life in rural Kenya"

  • BJ New Book

    "Against the Predators' Republic: Political and Cultural Journalism, 2007-2013

    A collection of Prof. Jeyifo's journalistic writings on Nigeria.

  • The Truth About Crime

    Professors Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff write "The Truth About Crime"

  • The two covers of Aperture Magazine's Summer 2016, "Vision & Justice" issue.

    Prof. Sarah Lewis Shines as Guest-Editor of Aperture

    Above are the two covers of Aperture Magazine's highly acclaimed Summer 2016, "Vision & Justice" issue.

  • "Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel"

    Prof. Michele Lamont, et al. set new agenda for comparative analysis of race & ethnicity

  • From the Was on Poverty to the War on Crime, by Elizabeth Hinton

    "From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America"

    Prof. Elizabeth Hinton examines the link between the war on poverty and the American carceral state in her important new book.

  • Professor Tommie Shelby authors, "Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform"

    From Harvard University Press, "Dark Ghettos examines the thorny questions of political morality raised by ghettos."

  • Picturing Frederick Douglass - Stauffer Image

    Picturing Frederick Douglass

    By AAAS Professor John Stauffer (Author), Zoe Trodd (Author), Celeste-Marie Bernier (Author), Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Epilogue)

  • cams_book_cover

    Professors John Comaroff & Jean Comaroff co-edit “The Politics of Custom"

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2018 Jun 28

Unbroken By Bars: A Public Program

6:00pm to 8:00pm

2018 Jun 30

Martin Luther King in Boston Walking Tour presented by the Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS)

3:00pm to 4:00pm

2018 Jul 07

2nd Annual All That Jazz Community Awareness Event

1:00pm to 4:00pm

2018 Jul 09

History Café 3 & Walking Tour: Caribbean Community in the Port

5:30pm to 8:00pm

2018 Jul 10

Taste of Cambridge

5:30pm to 8:30pm

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Prof. Laurence Ralph has been named the next editor of Current Anthropology

May 30, 2018

Professor Laurence Ralph has been named the next editor of Current Anthropology.  Laurence’s term begins January 1, 2019.  Published by the University of Chicago Press, the journal was founded in 1955 as the “Yearbook of Anthropology” and changed its name to Current Anthropology in 1959.  For more information, check out the ...

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Crimson Article on the Revitalization of AAAS back in the 1990s

May 22, 2018

On Tuesday, May 22, 2018, The Harvard Crimson published a second article on the department entitled, “Rebuilding African and African American Studies” by Ashely M. Cooper. The article chronicled the growth of the department and program after the arrival of Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in 1991, the...

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Crimson Article on the Black Presence at Harvard

May 20, 2018

On Sunday, May 20, 2018, The Harvard Crimson published the article, “Revisiting the ‘Four Demands,’ Fifty Years Later” by Ruth Hailu. The purpose of the article was to show the growth of the Department of African and African American Studies (AAAS) over time as well as illustrate how Harvard...

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