Program in African-American Studies records 1970-2000

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Program in African-American Studies records 1970-2000

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The Program in African-American Studies at Princeton University is a course of study offered to undergraduates at Princeton University, supervised by an interdepartmental committee and taught by faculty from twelve cooperating departments. The records consist of course proposals and descriptions, proposals for a post-doctoral program, and meeting minutes and correspondence of the interdepartmental committee.

0.63 linear feet; 2 boxes

Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections.Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library. Princeton University Archives.

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West, Cornel, 1953-

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Cornel West, philosopher, political activist, social critic, actor, and public intellectual. West focuses on the role of race, gender, and class in American society and the means by which people act and react to their "radical conditionedness". West is an outspoken voice in left-wing politics in the United States. He has held professorships and fellowships at Harvard University, Yale University, Union Theological Seminary, Princeton University, Dartmouth College, Pepperdine University, and the U...

Princeton University. Program in African-American Studies

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The program in African-American Studies at Princeton University is a course of study offered to undergraduates at Princeton University, supervised by an interdepartmental committee and taught by faculty from twelve cooperating departments. Organized in 1969 under the title Afro-American Studies, the program was funded early on by generous grants from the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Professors in the program have included such notable names in African-American literature and s...

Princeton University

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Slaby, Steve M.

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