Programs Offered by the Africana Studies Department
The multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary academic field known as Africana studies or Black studies seeks to explore in an orderly, systematic, and structurally integrated fashion the world of African and the African diaspora. The broad educational purpose of the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston is to document and disseminate a specialized body of knowledge about the African experience in Africa, the West Indies, Latin America, Canada, and especially the United States.
As a center of applied learning, the department will assist in preparing students for careers relevant to the development of the African community and to the rectification of social ills created world wide by individual and institutional racism.