Records of the Institute of African American Affairs

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Records of the Institute of African American Affairs

1963-2007

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Founded in 1969, the Institute of African American Affairs (IAAA) at New York University’s mission is to research, document, and celebrate the cultural and intellectual production of Africa and its diaspora in the Atlantic world and beyond with a commitment to the study of Blacks in modernity through concentrations in Pan-Africanism and Black Urban Studies. The Records of the Institute of African American Affairs date from 1963 to the early 2000s. Included in these records are conference and event materials in paper and computer files, and audiovisual recordings of these events. Events with a significant amount of material in the collection include the Black Male Conference; Black Theater Forum; the Artists and Scholars-in-Residence program; Black Genius; the Yari Yari conference for Black women writers; and the Slave Routes: The Long Memory Symposium. These records also contain material related to the files of various IAAA Directors, including Founding Director Roscoe C. Brown Jr., Edward M. Carroll, Earl S. Davis, and Manthia Diawara. Files related to the Association of Education in Journalism internship program, which was co-founded by Dr. Roscoe C. Brown Jr. can also be found in this collection. Audio recordings of the radio talk shows <emph render="italic">The Soul of Reason</emph> from the 1970s and <emph render="italic">The Urban League Presents</emph> from the 1960s, as well as May 1965 recordings of an NYU Teach-In, which was organized in protest of the Vietnam War are in this collection.

93 linear feet in 44 record cartons, 13 manuscript boxes, 1 half manuscript box, 3 card boxes, 2 cassette boxes, 4 flat boxes, and 37 boxes without container profiles.

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Diawara, Manthia, 1953-

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Diawara was born in Bamako, Mali, and received his early education in France.[1] He later received a PhD from Indiana University in 1985. Prior to teaching at NYU, Diawara taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California at Santa Barbara. Much of his research has been in the field of black cultural studies, though his work has differed from the traditional approach to such study formulated in Britain in the early 1980s. Along with other notable recent scholars, Diawar...

Davis, Earl S.

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EARL S. DAVIS had a fiftyyear career, which began and ended with New York University. He received an MSW in 1957 from the Graduate School of Public Administration and Social Service, and practiced social work in the field until 1972, when he joined the Silver School of Social Work (SSSW) staff as the assistant dean for admissions, financial aid and student affairs. Davis directed NYU’s Institute of African American Affairs from 1979 until 1994, and returned to the SSSW part time from 1995 to ...

New York University. Institute of African American Affairs

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The Institute of African American Affairs (IAAA) at New York University, which was initially called Institute of Afro-American Affairs, was founded in 1969 to research, document, and celebrate the cultural and intellectual production of Africa and its diaspora in the Atlantic world and beyond. The New York University Senate created the IAAA to coordinate the university-wide academic and service activities focusing on cultural programs for NYU’s Black students, faculty, staff, and larger New York...