NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Founded in 1972, the Department of Black Studies at Northwestern is a vibrant place for intellectual exchange, pedagological innovation, and community engagement. As you explore our website, you will notice our department's diasporic focus and its engagement with questions of race and blackness as they manifest all over the globe... We believe that this perspective provides a useful lens for understanding the destructive effects of racial subjugation and Eurocentrism the world over, effects that have always intersected with gender, class, sexuality, and geopolitics. We do more than scrutinize oppression, however, by also calling critical attention to how black subjects and other persons of color have responded to and resisted these conditions via their activism, expressive cultures, and intellectual work. In so doing, black people have contributed substantially to the formation of global freedom struggles and international political debates about social inequality... We are..

Also known as: Black Studies

Primary location: Evanston United States