The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) announced structural changes to seven departments focused on ethnic and gender ...

HISTORY AT THE STATE CAPITOL TODAY. THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS GATHERING TODAY TO EMPHASIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF AP AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHERS, STUDENTS AND POLICY MAKERS JOINING ...

DEI movement put the future of the high school class in question, but it ultimately survived the State Board of Education’s review.

The object of inquiry in American studies is culture—usefully defined as a society’s “whole way of life”—the sum of the ways a society and its subjects at once understand and remake the world. Taking ...

The Mellema Program in Western American Studies was endowed by Dirk and JoAnn Mellema in 1993. Calvin University hired William Katerberg as its director in 1999. The program is housed in the ...

When English Professor Emeritus Carl Smith founded the American Studies program in 1974, he envisioned an interdisciplinary honors program hinged on field-based learning and a senior thesis. The ...

More than five decades ago, Morgan Chu was taught a version of American history that all but ignored the experiences of Asian Americans like him. Chu, an attorney who grew up in New York and moved to ...

Asian Americans have been in the United States for hundreds of years, and are the fastest growing demographic in the country. Despite that, they've historically been marginalized and often erased from ...

FAMU's decision to fuse some of its low-productivity degree programs – including Black studies – has led to frustration from the FAMU community.

The affected departments include African and African Diaspora Studies; Mexican American and Latina/o Studies; Women's, Gender ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Asian American studies is expanding at Fresno State. For years, Fresno State has had a minor and certificates in Asian American Studies. Associate Professor Jenny Banh, says ...

In a grotesquely unfair 1981 review of TJ Jackson Lears’s No Place of Grace, the Rutgers intellectual and cultural historian’s classic analysis of anti-modernism in American thought and the arts, ...