Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies

Core Claremont Colleges Faculty

Dipannita Basu, Ph.D., Manchester University (Sociology, Pitzer College)

Halford Fairchild, Ph.D., University of Michigan (Psychology, Pitzer College)

Laura Harris, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego (English and World Literature, Pitzer College)

Sid Lemelle, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (History, Pomona College)

Rita Roberts, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (History, Scripps College)

Marie-Denise Shelton, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (Modern Languages, Claremont McKenna College)

Valorie Thomas, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (English, Pomona College)

Affiliated Faculty

Isabel Balseiro, Ph.D., New York University (Literature, Harvey Mudd College)

Adam Bradley, Ph.D., Harvard University

Cecelia Conrad, Ph.D., Stanford University (Economics, Pomona College)

Gwendolyn Lytle, M.M., New England Conservatory of Music (Music, Pomona College)

Dean McHenry, Ph.D., Indiana University (Claremont Graduate University)

Linda M. Perkins Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign

Sheila Walker, Ph.D., Cornell University (Psychology, Scripps College)

Vincent Wimbush, Ph.D., Harvard University (Psychology, Claremont Graduate University)

Academic Program

CGU offers a Certificate in Africana Studies in cooperation with the undergraduate Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies. The certificate requires five, 4-unit courses, three of which must be CGU courses.

The mission of the IDBS is to examine through various academic disciplines the experiences of people of African heritage worldwide. The Black studies curriculum helps to unify an important area of intellectual investigation and enhances the appreciation of particular disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences.

Examples of Courses Offered

CGU applicants and current students should note that most of the following representative courses are offered at the undergraduate Claremont Colleges. Only upper-division undergraduate courses may be taken for graduate credit,with faculty approval:

The Arts of Africa
African American Art
Issues in African American Art
History of Africa to 1800
History of Africa since 1800
Pan-Africanism and Black Radical Traditions
African Diaspora in the United States to 1877
Slavery and Freedom in the New World
Industrialization and Social Change in Southern Africa
History of African American Women in the United States
Is This America?: The Modern Civil Rights Movement in America
Epistemologies of the Diaspora
Black Women Feminism(s) and Social Change
Special Studies in African American Literature in the United States
Survey of African American Fiction
African and Caribbean Literature
African Politics
Seminar in African American Psychology

Further Information

Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies
185 E. 6th Street, #105
Claremont, CA 91711-3948
E-mail: sonia_young@pitzer.edu
Telephone: (909) 607-3070
Website: www.cuc.claremont.edu/idbs/