Noun
Black studies (uncountable)
(humanities) an interdisciplinary academic discipline concerned with the study of culture relating to African peoples and the African diaspora.
It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed. Henry Louis Gates
I thought that I would like to be affiliated with some school or institution. As time went on, I also decided on the subject that I wanted to get involved with in addition to music: it was Black Studies. Donald Byrd
Coleman Powell ’20 is a senior completing an Honors special major in Comparative Racial Politics — a combination of Black Studies and Political Science — and an Arabic minor. Source: Internet
UCSB Department of Black Studies Co-Hosts Public Forum on Racial Necropolitics… Source: Internet
He plans to do so by implementing changes that include appointing Black professors to be diversity advisors for his administration and establishing the Center for Global Black Studies. Source: Internet
Prof Shirley Jackson, a Black Studies professor at Portland State University, said that it was important to remember that Oregon was founded on the basis of "excluding certain populations, namely African-Americans". Source: Internet