非洲研究文学士学位

非裔美国人研究系（以前称为黑人美国人研究系）于1968年在SIU成立，以回应学生，社区和教职员工的要求，该大学的课程设置与渴望获得知识的学生群体更加相关它们使世界充满了战争抗议，民权示威以及为美国妇女和其他少数族裔群体争取正义的斗争而爆发的感觉。迫切需要一种课程，以解决长期被压制的黑人历史，以全世界非洲裔人的文学，政治，社会和教育成就为荣，这将使教室多样化，从教科书到教师。那时和现在，学生开发了分析工具，通过这些工具，他们可以从非洲和美洲的过去中检索重要信息，以比教室中通常所见的更广阔的视角来解释历史和文
The School of Africana and Multicultural Studies - previously known as Black American Studies - was founded at SIU in 1968, in response to student, community and staff demands that the course offerings of the university become more relevant to a student population hungry for knowledge that would help them make sense of a world exploding with war protests, civil rights demonstrations, and struggles for justice for women and other ethnic minority populations in the United States.<br><br>There was an urgent need for a curriculum that would address long-suppressed black history, that would take pride in the literary, political, social and educational accomplishments of people of African descent the world over, that would diversify the classroom, from textbooks to teachers. Students then and now developed analytical tools by which they could retrieve important information from the African and American past, interpret historical and cultural texts from a broader perspective than was usually found in classrooms, and connect their lived experiences with the lives and struggles of centuries of Africans enslaved and free.