Stanford University, Department of African and African American Studies,
records SC1484
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Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Stanford University, Department of African and African American Studies,
records
Identifier/Call Number: SC1484
Physical Description:
2.75 Linear Feet
(1 MSB, 1 flat box, 3 half boxes)
Physical Description:
330.2 megabyte(s)
Date (inclusive): 1968-2023
Physical Location: Special Collections and University
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Language of Material:
English .
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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.
Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original
format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transfer, 2019.
Scope and Contents
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
College students, Black.
Africa -- Study and teaching
African American college students
Program records Accession ARCH-2019-133
Language of Material: English.
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.
Box 3
2 videotapes titled Welcome to Belize and AAAS Learning Expectation S.
Carolina Usher Anniversary
ARCH-2023-107
1999 March
21
Box 5
St. Clair Drake letter to President Lyman affixed to copy of New York
Education Quarterly Spring 1979
ARCH-2024-053
1979 May
18
Immediate Source of Acquisition
These materials were purchased using the Portwood Fund in 2023.
Box 1, folder 1
Sylvia Wynter materials
1980-1982
Box 1, folder 2
Academic Excellence and Social Responsibility in Black
Studies
1974
Box 1, folder 3
Black70 publication
Language of Material: English.
Box 1, folder 4
Black Employment Committee
1974
Language of Material: English.
Conditions Governing Access
This material is restricted until 2027.
Box 1, folder 5
AAAS commencement programs
1999-2010
Language of Material: English.
Conditions Governing Access
This material is restricted until 2027.
Box 1, folder 7
Ethnic Studies Forum
1995 April
19
Box 1, folder 8
Slides for student use from Professor Kennell Jackson
1995 May 24
Language of Material: English.
Conditions Governing Access
This material is restricted until 2027.
Box 1, folder 9
Notes on African Kingdoms from 9th to 19th centuries
Language of Material: English.
Box 1
Committee on Undergraduate Studies Review Report on AAAS: The
Aftermath
1979-1980
Language of Material: English.
Box 1
The Committee on Black Performing Arts presents Dance Theatre of the
Afro-Americas
1980 Feb 24
Language of Material: English.
Box 1
Prolegomena proposing Institute for Research in the African Disapora:
Archival Component
1980
Language of Material: English.
Box 1, folder 10
U.S. and Africa, History 147 syllabus and notes
Language of Material: English.
Box 1
Chaka
Language of Material: English.
Box 2
The Black Community at Stanford University, edited by K. Archuleta & R.
Johnson
1977-1978
Language of Material: English.
Box 4
Nigerian plays used for teaching ARCH-2023-107
1957-1970
Department records accession ARCH-2024-080
Biographical / Historical
AAAS 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.
