african studies Archives - Franklin Humanities Institute https://humanitiesfutures.org/tag/african-studies/ Humanities Futures Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:21:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Curated Group: Global Blackness https://humanitiesfutures.org/groups/global-blackness/ Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:59:08 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=groups&p=3249 This curated set of think pieces features six reflections on global blackness.

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]]> Black History, Islam, and the Future of the Humanities Beyond White Supremacy https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/black-history-islam-future-humanities-beyond-white-supremacy/ Sat, 15 Oct 2016 00:57:34 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=1634 Interpreting Islam as a form of Black history offers a scholarly framework for reimagining the humanities beyond white supremacy. This paper theorizes such a framework first by showing how modern Black people in Africa and the African diaspora constructed Islam as a religion and civilization of resistance to Euro-American imperialism and anti-Black racism.

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]]> Global Health Humanities: A View from Africa https://humanitiesfutures.org/events/global-health-humanities-a-view-from-africa/ Tue, 03 Nov 2015 18:14:12 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=events&p=491 Please join the Global Health Humanities Working Group for a panel discussion with Profs. Alvan Ikoku (Stanford) and Randall Packard...

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]]> Martin Murray | Re-Urbanism in Africa https://humanitiesfutures.org/events/martin-murray-building-large-scale-master-planned-holistically-designed-cities-from-scratch-re-urbanism-in-africa/ Fri, 02 Oct 2015 01:32:40 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=events&p=341 Building Large-Scale, Master-Planned, Holistically-Designed Cities from Scratch: Re-Urbanism in Africa Re-urbanism in Africa and elsewhere involves the construction of master-...

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