Create academically excellent, socially responsible, and globally concerned scholar-activists in the tradition of Massachusetts native W.E.B. Du Bois, through teaching, research and creative activity, and service and outreach to the campus, the community, and scholarly professional fields.
As one of the first degree-granting and tenure-conferring departments of what was then popularly referred to as Black Studies, the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies helped establish the study of the African American experience and the Afro-Diaspora as a serious endeavor in higher education in the United States. Our long, distinguished history of educating leaders arises from a powerful combination of:
• academic excellence in a global learning environment
• a tight-knit, diverse, and international community
• a worldwide network of influential alumnae/i
• the conviction that people of African descent can and should make a difference in the world
Please make a gift to support research in the Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies and contribute to the creation of a new body of knowledge about the American experience during UMassGives!
