The Silenced and Silences: Representations in Ethnic Studies

Section for Africana and African American Studies

 

The Africana Studies program used to encompass many Ethnic studies; it now specializes in the interdisciplinary study of African and African American cross-cultural experiences.

Smiling students seated in classroom with professor in back

[Ethnic Studies students in the classroom]

African American families congregating in front of old building in Allensworth

Allensworth Trip photograph

African American children happily posing next to farm equipment outdoors from the old town

Allensworth Trip photograph

Cover of yellow pamphlet displaying shape of African continent with the shape of the United States cut out from it

Ethnic Studies Program: African American & American Indian Studies

Newspaper clipping details reasons behind failed Ethnic Studies program of 1968

“Black Studies at FSC: Administration, Faculty Debate Future”

Pink magazine cover with head camera shots of African American people

The Grapevine (September, 1973)

Nathan C. Heard weighs in on lack of national identity among African Americans from Fresno

The Importance of a National Identity

Blue magazine cover with a black and white drawing of elderly woman

The Grapevine (February-March, 1970)

Green magazine cover with headshots of African American men and women

The Grapevine (March-April, 1970)

Magazine cover with drawings of African American figures of importance

Grapevine Black Business Directory 1975

Brief history of African Americans in California and founding of Allensworth

A Pictorial History of Allensworth: A Unique Black Town

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