Welcome to Africana Studies

The Department of Africana Studies at the University of New Mexico is an interdisciplinary major degree-granting department, which provides students with a broad understanding of the political, social, and historic linkages between peoples of Africa and other African-descended people in the Southwest, the rest of the United States, and throughout the Black Diaspora in Mexico, Latin America, Europe, and the Caribbean. Black diasporic methodologies are essential to unpacking the role that the Black Diaspora plays in global cultural, revolutionary, and technological advances. Global South Studies, Afrofuturism and Afropessimism, Transgender Studies, Transnational Intersectional Feminisms are but a few of the remarkably broad range of academic and research interests and social justice imperatives that Africana Studies applies that are central to the overarching research mission of the University of New Mexico.




OUR MOTTO


 

LIFTING AS WE CLIMB

 

 OUR MISSION


Giving students of all races, ethnicities, and backgrounds a full understanding of the global linkages between peoples of Africa and other African descended people in the Southwest, the contiguous United States and throughout the Black diaspora.

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DEAI Documentary Film Festival
September 3, 2024

DEAI Film Festival

Dates: Tuesdays, September 10, 17 and 24
Time: 4:00PM – 7:00PM
Location: The ARTS Lab, inside UNM Center for Advanced Research Computing at 1601 Central Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106
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Africana Studies faculty member Dr. Natasha Howard selected for the 2024 Women in STEM Awards

Assistant Professor Dr. Natasha Howard selected for the 2024 Women in STEM Awards. Fourteen faculty members at the University of New Mexico have been selected for the 2024 Women in STEM Awards.

Read More at UNM Newsroom.

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