African, African American, and Diaspora Studies (AAAD)
Welcome to African, African American, and Diaspora Studies (AAAD)
The minor in AAAD broadens students' world perspectives by enhancing their acquaintance with and understanding of the peoples, issues of identities and institutions of Africa as well as the African Diaspora in the western hemisphere.
The AAAD program engages interdisciplinary approaches to understand and to encounter African and the African Diaspora in a global context. The interdisciplinary character of the program is further enhanced by the fact that courses taken to fulfill program requirements are drawn from several departments. From these course offerings, students will examine and engage with some of Africana studies major contributing disciplines, concepts, methods and topics including the development of new identities.
Events
- Feb 9: Madison Equality Presents: Charity Ball
- Feb 12: - Apr 5: JMU Through Living Color
- Feb 21: - 22: AAAD Conference 2019
- Feb 22: The Hair Affair
- Mar 13: Annual Diversity Conference
- Mar 14: Jaki Shelton-Green - Poetry Reading
- Apr 3: NAACP Image Awards Banquet
- Apr 17: A. Van Jordan
Africana Studies
