Department of African American Studies
Yale University
PO Box 208212
New Haven, CT 06520-8212

Telephone and Fax
Phone: 203.432.1177
Fax: 203.432.2102

I used to want the words, "She tried," on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it."
~ Katherine Dunham

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Don't play what's there, play what's not there."
~ Miles Davis

“We are each other’s magnitude and bond.”
~ Gwendolyn Brooks

"Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it."
~ James Baldwin

The emotional, sexual and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: "It's a girl."
~ Shirley Chisholm

Wade in the water, Wade in the water, children. Wade in the water, God's goin' to trouble the water.
~ African American Spiritual

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
~ Satchel Paige

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Events


	Graduation 2013! May 20, 2013 Yale University, Old Campus ... Read more
	"Double Natural" Ellen Gallagher January 24, 2013 11:45-1:15pm 81 Wall St., Gordon Parks Room 201 Ellen Gallagher breaks the boundaries of... Read more
	"Black Cultural Politics in a Color Blind Nation" Tricia Rose January 31, 2013 11:45-1:15pm 81 Wall St., Room 201 This lecture explores some facets of the... Read more
	"The Invisible Weight of Whiteness: The Racial Grammar of Everyday Life in America" Eduardo Bonilla Silva February 04, 2013 11:30-1:20pm 210 Prospect Street, Room 203 Note this special day, time and location Professor Bonilla-Silva gained... Read more*
	Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco in Conversation with Elizabeth Alexander Inaugural Poet (2009) Richard Blanco and Elizabeth Alexander February 05, 2013 4pm 9 Tower Parkway This is Richard Blanco’s first post-... Read more
	"Natasha Trethewey in conversation with Elizabeth Alexander" Natasha Trethewey February 14, 2013 11:45-1:15pm 81 Wall St., Gordon Parks Seminar, Room 201 Natasha Trethewey, the... Read more

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Marcus Hunter's article, "A Bridge Over Troubled Urban Waters," appears online at the ... Read more
The Department of African American Studies will join with affiliated departments to confer the combined Ph.D. on the following graduate students, Monday, May 20,... Read more
Jayne Ptolemy has been awarded the Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize for 2013. The prize is given annually in the memory of Sylvia Boone, a noted scholar of African art,... Read more