Dr. Maceo Crenshaw Dailey Director of African American Studies Program   Dr. Selfa Chew Assistant Director of African American Studies

"We must change the system of education and instruction.  Unfortunately history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural."                                                   Josephine Baker  Welcome The African American Studies Program provides for individuals of all backgrounds a humanistic lens and course of study for analysis of the black experience. Research, teaching, and related academic and social activities focus on African American history and culture and the attendant complexities of "race" relations in Texas, the American southwest, the nation, and the Diaspora.

2012 Black History Month Events

New Film Course on Denzel Washington Spring 2012:

Film Course Syllabus:

2011 Women Behind The Camera Event 

2011 News and Black History Month Events
                                                       

Women's History Month Event for 2010

Featured Literary Conference on Black Women Writers of the Diaspora!          April 15-16 2010
                                                                                    

News and Black History Month Events for 2010
Calendar of Events for Black History Month 2010