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

"Emmett and Trayvon": Elijah Anderson's Huffington Post blog

In his Huffington Post blog, Elijah Anderson discusses to what degree social attitudes toward race have changed in the nearly sixty year period marking the murder of two African American teenage boys, 14-year old Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955 and the killing of 17-year old Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2012--"Emmett and Trayvon: How Racial Prejudice Has Changed in the Last 60 Years," Posted Feb. 28, 2013, 4:13pm

View Elijah Anderson's faculty page: http://afamstudies.yale.edu/faculty/elijah-anderson