Intercollegiate Department of Africana 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/  

Faculty

Active Claremont Colleges Faculty

Dipannita Basu, PhD, Manchester University (Sociology, Pitzer College)

Halford Fairchild, PhD, University of Michigan (Psychology, Pitzer College)

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

Sid Lemelle, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (History, Pomona College)

Rita Roberts, PhD, University of California, Berkeley (History, Scripps College)

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

Valorie Thomas, PhD, University of California, Berkeley (English, Pomona College) 

Affiliated Faculty

Isabel Balseiro, PhD, New York University (Literature, Harvey Mudd College)

Adam Bradley, PhD, Harvard University

Cecelia Conrad, PhD, Stanford University (Economics, Pomona College)

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

Dean McHenry, PhD, Indiana University (Claremont Graduate University)

Linda M. Perkins PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign

Sheila Walker, PhD, Cornell University (Psychology, Scripps College)

Vincent Wimbush, PhD, Harvard University (Psychology, Claremont Graduate University) 

The mission of the Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies (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