Bowdoin Africana Studies


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Africana Studies

 

The Africana Studies Program is an interdisciplinary field that brings together the humanities and social sciences to study the world from African American and African perspectives. The aim of the program is to introduce students to analytical and critical skills through multiple methodological approaches drawn from anthropology, art history, history, literature, music, political economy, and theater.

Faculty Publications

Africana Studies Faculty Research - Bowdoin College



Our faculty members are outstanding, engaged scholars, researchers, and artists »

History

History - Martin Luther King Jr. at Bowdoin College



Bowdoin has been at the center of a number of the most momentous passages in the history of African America. »

Background photograph: John Brown Russwurm African American Center