Alumni of Color Initiative
Africana Studies
The Department of Africana Studies is an interdisciplinary intellectual center for students, faculty, artists and scholars interested in the artistic, historical, literary and theoretical expressions of Africa and the African Diaspora. It houses scholars in the fields of history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, political theory, performance studies, feminist studies and cultural studies.
“When one crosses the traditional disciplinary divide, one opens up knowledge formation and develops a critical awareness of life and ideas. All this is part of what a great university should be. Our approach in Africana Studies allows this kind of knowledge production to occur.”
Anthony Bogues
Department Chair
Harmon Family Professor of Africana Studies
The department’s Rites and Reason Theatre develops new plays by students and faculty. Africana Studies sponsors symposia, lectures, debates, a bi-annual film festival and regular colloquia on African and African Diaspora writing. The Department is also at the hub of a global collaboration project, “The Trilateral Reconnection Project,” with the University of Cape Town and the University of West Indies.
Endowed Fund for the Africana Studies Department
Goal: $100,000 +
Your gift to this fund will help support the activities of the department, including the Slavery and Justice initiatives and Rites and Reason Theatre. The endowment will also fund visiting scholars and artists and support program enhancements that will benefit the entire Brown community.
“Africana Studies and Rites and Reason have been my home. The people I’ve met in this department have been familial. I can speak to professors as easily as I could an aunt or uncle. I’ve been pushed and challenged, comforted and recognized.”
Gina Rodriguez ’08
“Africana Studies allows you to ask different questions simultaneously – through the lenses of history, political science, performance studies – to arrive at a much richer and complex portrait of what’s happening.”
Rakim Brooks ’09
Featured Gift Opportunities
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$2.5 million
Help us meet this goal for the Annual Fund's Investment in Diversity -
$250,000
Help us endow one Inman Page Black Alumni Council Scholarship -
$100,000
Help us meet our goal to endow a program fund for U.S. Latino Studies -
Gifts of any amount are welcome!
Did you know that you can allocate your Brown Annual Fund gift to Investment in Diversity?To learn more about Campaign Gift Opportunities, call 1 (800) 662-2266 or email us.
