Stanford University, Department of African and African American Studies records, 1968-2023

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Summary

Extent:
2.75 Linear Feet (1 MSB, 1 flat box, 3 half boxes) and 330.2 megabyte(s)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[identification of item], Stanford University, Department of African and African American Studies, records (SC1484). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of materials relating to the Program in African and African American Studies at Stanford University.

Biographical / historical:

The Department of African and African American Studies (AAAS), first established as an interdisciplinary Stanford program in 1969, was the first ethnic studies program developed at Stanford University and the first African and African American Studies program at a private institution in the United States.

AAAS promotes an understanding of how history informs the present and inspires an engagement with the past in order to collectively dream a more just and equitable future. AAAS faculty, staff, and students value the interrelated nature of the personal and the political and aim to create a community that allows for intellectual and personal flourishing. The program's interdisciplinarity equips students with the tools to produce revolutionary scholarship, question all assumptions and norms, and confront the power imbalances of our social reality.

Departmentalized in October 2023 by the Board of Trustees following over 55 years of advocacy by Stanford students, staff, and faculty, Stanford's Department of African and African American Studies opened in January 2024 and currently offers three tracks—African Studies, African American Studies, and Global Black Diaspora Studies—providing undergraduates with a comprehensive understanding of the field of Black Studies.

Acquisition information:
Transfer, 2019.
Physical location:
Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 48 hours in advance. For more information on paging collections, see the department's website: http://library.stanford.edu/spc.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.

Terms of access:

All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.

Preferred citation:

[identification of item], Stanford University, Department of African and African American Studies, records (SC1484). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Location of this collection:
Stanford University Archives, Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064, US
Contact:
(650) 725-1022
specialcollections@stanford.edu
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