MIZZOU BLACK STUDIES
Spring 2025 Newsletter
BLACK STUDIES (BL_STU) SPRING 2025 COURSES
BL_STU 1000 & 1000H – Introduction to Black Studies Tu/Th 9:30-10:45 AM Tate 215 Atuhura |
BL_STU 1250 – World Theatre Workshop M/W 12:00-12:50 PM Fine Arts (Music) 148 Gray |
BL_STU 1704 & 1704H – Introduction to Black Politics M/W/F 10:00-10:50 AM Switzler 318 Brown/Dunkley |
BL_STU 2005 – History of Afro-Brazilian Music Tu/Th 9:00 AM – 10:45 AM Middlebush 210 Draper |
BL_STU 2005W – Topics in Black Studies M/W/F 12:00-12:50 PM A&S 233 Obubo/Dunkley |
BL_STU 2200 – Social Inequalities M/W/F 9:00-9:50 AM A&S 104 Rais |
BL_STU 2200 – Social Inequalities TBA INTERNET Uzun |
BL_STU 2320 – Brazilian Civilization Tu/Th 2:00-3:15 PM Strickland 217 Draper |
BL_STU 2715 & 2715H – Swahili Language & Culture Tu/Th 3:30-4:45 PM A&S 233 Kaganda |
BL_STU 3004 – Undergraduate Topics in Black Studies (Black Italy) Tu/Th 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM A&S 236 Cornette |
BL_STU 3024 – Black Diaspora Women & Reproductive Justice TBA INTERNET Kaganda |
BL_STU 3410 – African American Literature, 1900-Present M/W/F 11:00-11:50 AM Strickland 314 Hoberek |
BL_STU 3977 – Black Studies Methodologies M/W/F 9:00-9:50 AM Gentry 325 Jirik |
BL_STU 4230 – Women, Development, & Globalization M/W/F 10:00-10:50 AM Gentry 325 Fett |
BL_STU 4335* – The Wire: Race, Urban Inequality, & Crisis Tu/Th 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM A&S 233 Mack |
BL_STU 4400 – Studies in African Diaspora Literature Tu/Th 9:30-10:45 AM Strickland 117 Buckner |
BL_STU 4500 – Special Problems in Black Studies ARRANGED Mack |
BL_STU 4835W – Race & Politics in South Africa M 3:00-5:20 PM Jesse Hall 410 Frierdich |
BL_STU 4975 – Black Studies Internship TBA ARRANGED Faculty |
Core course requirements are in bold.
*Indicates graduate course.
DEPARTMENT PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dr. Willie Mack will have his article, “Transnational Carceral Regimes and Punitive Anti-communism: The Creation of the Totalitarian Carceral State in Haiti (1957 – 1986)” published in the Journal of Haitian Studies, Volume 31, no 1 in the spring. This paper examines the rise of Haiti’s totalitarian carceral state during the twentieth century through the lens of U.S. empire. This paper takes up an absence in U.S. carceral history by showing how what I call a “transnational carceral network” operated to discipline Haitians as a direct function and expression of U.S. Cold War power to develop what I call punitive anticommunism. Furthermore, within U.S. empire, this paper argues that the Haitian people are colonized two times over: first, by Haitian elites and, second, by the U.S. This paper also examines the U.S. and Cold War politics impact on social control, racial ideology, and racial capitalism in Haiti.
NEWS & UPDATES
Online access to the Walter Daniel Library Catalog @ Black Studies
The Black Studies Department’s Walter Daniel Library Catalog is now available online. You can access the catalogue here.
2025 Black History Month Distinguished Lecture
Register for the lecture here. The first 40 guests in attendance will receive a copy of Professor Kelley’s book, Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class.
2025 Black Studies Department Conference, October 15-16, “Navigating Anti-Black Racism and Nativism: Black Immigrants and the Right to the Nation.”
Keynote speaker, Dr. Regine O. Jackson, Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Media, and Arts Division, Morehouse College.
SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
The annual submission deadlines are November 12 and March 12
Charles Sampson Scholarship in Public Affairs and Black Studies – for research support up to $500.
James S. Rollins Slavery Atonement Scholarship – for research support up to $1,000.
Mary Crawford King and Louis King Scholarship – for research support up to $1,000 when participating in an MU study abroad program in Africa, the Caribbean, or South America with an interest in studying people of African descent.
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RESOURCE ASSISTANCE?
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MIZZOU BLACK STUDIES
Undergraduate Advisor: Kibby Smith
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Dr. Willie Mack
Department Administration and Business Manager: Shawn Hall
Department Chair: Dr. Daive Dunkley
MIZZOU RESOURCE CENTERS and OFFICES
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