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Black Studies has evolved as a scholarly discipline in this country since the late 19th century , primarily at HBCUs. Black thinkers have worked to account for the complexity and diversity of the Black experience. The creation of Black Studies Departments in the 1960's has led to the institutionalization of Black Studies in the American academy. Given the varied focus of these departments, a number of descriptors have emerged to describe their central mission. Whether or not these descriptors should be standardized is an open question. All of these departments have different origins and serve unique populations. The diversity in description is a strength not a weakness.
Black Studies
Northwestern University https://blackstudies.northwestern.edu/ University of Illinois at Chicago https://blst.uic.edu/
Global Black Studies -
Purchase SUNY https://www.purchase.edu/academics/global-black-studies/
Afro-American Studies
University of Massachusetts https://www.umass.edu/afro-am/ Howard University https://afroamericanstudies.howard.edu/
African American Studies
Wayne State University https://clas.wayne.edu/afamstudies Princeton University https://aas.princeton.edu/
African American and African Studies
Michigan State University https://aaas.msu.edu/ University of Kansas https://afs.ku.edu/
African American and African Diaspora Studies
Columbia University https://afamstudies.columbia.edu/ University of California Berkeley https://africam.berkeley.edu/
Afro-American Studies and African Studies
University of Michigan https://lsa.umich.edu/daas Roosevelt University https://catalog.roosevelt.edu/undergraduate/courses/afs/
Africana Studies
Oberlin https://www.oberlin.edu/arts-and-sciences/departments/africana-studies New York University https://as.nyu.edu/departments/africanastudies.html
African and African American Studies
Harvard University https://www.harvard.edu/programs/african-and-african-american-studies/ Stanford University https://aaas.stanford.edu/
African and Black Diaspora Studies
Depaul University https://las.depaul.edu/academics/african-and-black-diaspora-studies/Pages/default.aspx Loyola University https://www.luc.edu/africanstudies/
Pan-African Studies
University of Louisville https://louisville.edu/panafricanstudies/ Californaia State University at Los Angeles https://www.calstatela.edu/academic/pas
Africology and African American Studies
Temple University https://liberalarts.temple.edu/academics/departments-and-programs/africology-and-african-american-studies
Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity
University of Chicago https://rdi.uchicago.edu/
Africana, Puerto Rican, and Latino Studies
Hunter College https://hunter.cuny.edu/artsci/africana-and-puerto-rican-latino-studies/
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