African and African Diaspora Studies

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African and African Diaspora Studies is designed to help students explore, examine and critically analyze the African presence in a global context, stretching back to antiquity in Europe and Asia, and for centuries in the Americas.

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Professor of English Jeffrey Coleman Published in Poetry Anthology on Black Resilience
February 18, 2022
Front cover of “Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience” (Cherry Castle Publishing, 2022)
Jeffrey Lamar Coleman, professor of English, has three poems included in the poetry anthology “Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience” (Cherry Castle Publishing, 2022).
Co-edited by Melanie Henderson, Enzo Silon Surin, and Truth Thomas, the multigenerational book consists of 86 poems by 30 poets… Find Out More
Professor of English Jeffrey Coleman Published in Book on Black Intellectual Thought of the Twentieth Century
August 29, 2021
Book cover image of The Black Intellectual Tradition
Jeffrey Lamar Coleman, professor of English, published "Singing Is Swinging: The Soul Force of Twentieth Century Black Protest Music" in "The Black Intellectual Tradition: African American Thought in the Twentieth Century" (University of Illinois Press, 2021). The book presents essays on the… Find Out More
St. Mary’s College to Host “From Invisibility to Remembrance” Symposium
September 19, 2019
A Commemorative to Enslaved Peoples of Southern Maryland rendering shown
The African and African Diaspora Studies program at St. Mary’s College of Maryland will host its second annual fall symposium, “From Invisibility to Remembrance: Commemorating Slavery at St. Mary’s and Beyond,” on Wednesday, Oct. 2 beginning at 8 p.m. in Cole Cinema, Campus Center, and on Thursday… Find Out More
Dr. Yasser Elshayeb to Discuss ScanPyramid Mission, Discovery
September 21, 2018
Dr. Yasser Elshayeb
St. Mary’s College of Maryland welcomes Dr. Yasser Elshayeb from Cairo University to campus to discuss a recent discovery at the great pyramids on Friday, Sept. 28 at 4 p.m. in Cole Cinema located in Campus Center. This event is free and open to the public.

Elshayeb is the deputy coordinator of… Find Out More
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