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Department of African-American
Studies
News
Exploring Her/Story
A Scholarly Tribute to
Dr. Gloria Harper Dickinson
The College of New Jersey
April 23, 2009
4:30-7pm
Business Building Lounge
- Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Ph.D., Princeton University Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies,"Race, Gender, and the Presidential Election of 2008," Monday, February 23, 2009, 5:00pm-7pm in the Mildred and Ernest Mayo Concert Hall (Music Building)
- Celebration of the Life of Dr. Gloria Harper Dickinson, Saturday, February 28, 2009, 7-11pm in the The Brower Student Center.
The Department of African-American Studies is mourning the loss of Dr. Gloria Harper Dickinson. As an architect of TCNJ's African-American Studies Department, Dr. Dickinson was a prominent voice in Trenton State College and TCNJ programming. Dr. Dickinson left an indelible mark on The College as an agent for progressive change.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Gloria's name to the Alpha Kappa Alpha Educational Advancement Foundation, http://www.akaeaf.org/
Cards may be sent to Mr. Arthur Dickinson, 147 Clubhouse Drive, Willingboro, NJ 08046.
- Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Ph. D., Princeton University William S.Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies, will discuss "Post-Racial America??: Race, Nation, and the Presidential Election of 2008," on Monday, October 20, 2008 at 5:30pm in the Library Auditorium.
- Angela Y. Davis, 2008 Black History Month Presentation at TCNJ
The African-American Studies department at The College of New Jersey is devoted to promoting scholarship and dialogue on issues related to Africa and its Diaspora.
African-American Studies explores the full spectrum of promise and tragedy throughout Africa and its Diaspora. It questions matters of race and ethnicity that reside at the heart to America's national identity and comprise the nation’s most persistent problems. African-American Studies provides a balanced examination of the internal dynamics of power relations in the United States and its relationship with the rest of the world.
African-American Studies gives the liberal education contextual foundation and enhances mainstream studies by looking at the cultural, structural, historical, and intellectual substructure of the West.
The Department of African-American Studies is comprised of an interdisciplinary faculty whose research interests and scholarship provides a unique and comprehensive approach to understanding society. The department emphasizes writing skills, the ability to converse forcefully and intelligibly in any setting, critical and independent thinking, and a facility to interrogate the silences in the arts, journalism, literature, law, politics, and history. African-American Studies offers a well-rounded education that frames and enhances the rest of the TCNJ's curriculum.
The African-American Studies department addresses the questions of social justice, fairness, political process, economic and cultural development that allow a thorough interrogation of the dominant culture and allows students to explore American hegemony and the existing racial/ethnic order as a contingency of history and not the natural ordering of society. The department believes that a healthy democracy necessitates an informed, curious, and active public that is willing to questions its deficiencies.
Students who take African-American Studies courses at TCNJ are invested in a multi-racial, multi-ethnic world and wish to continue the dialogue on managing difference. These students are attracted to the African-American Studies department’s small classes, challenging classroom environment, and broad scholarly training and teaching methods, and use of the newest and most exciting instructional techniques including the integration of web resources, hypertextual media, and community engagement into traditional pedagogy.
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