Amilcar Shabazz

I work at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as Faculty Advisor to the Chancellor for Diversity & Excellence and as a professor in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies. I teach U.S. and African Diaspora history with an emphasis on social and cultural movements, education, and heritage studies. My book Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas received numerous honors including the T.R. Fehrenbach Book Award. I also co-edited with Celia Daileader & Rhoda Johnson, Women & Others: Perspective on Race, Gender, and Empire, and The Forty Acres Documents with Imari & Johnita Scott Obadele. I have written journal articles, book chapters, reviews and writings in publications as diverse as The Source Magazine of Hip-Hop Music, Culture & Politics. An international scholar, I have been a Fulbright Senior Specialist and have lectured and consulted in Brazil, Ghana, Japan, Cuba, Mali, France, and Jamaica. Presently, I am completing an historical biography of lawyer-activist-publisher Carter Wesley, volumes on the mass media and the civil rights and black power movements, and a book on the future of the higher education African Americans in the wake of anti-affirmative action litigation.