Students interested in the African American Studies concentration within the Ethnic Studies minor may take\u00a0a variety of courses housed in numerous departments within the College of Arts and Sciences. In addition to taking ETHS 252A: Introduction to African American Studies and ETHS 251: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Religion in the United States, students concentrating in African American Studies have options in Political Science, HIstory, English, Economics, Cognitive Science, Religious Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Sociology, to name just a few disciplines.<\/p>\n
The ETHS Program also partners with the Kelvin Smith Library\u00a0to create outreach programs\u00a0with Cleveland schools so that young students\u00a0enrolled in\u00a0academic institutions in proximity to our campus have opportunities to discuss literature and theory with prominent African American\u00a0authors and scholars of African and African American Studies. Some of the schools we have worked with include John Hay High School (Cleveland), Warrensville Heights High School, John Dewey Elementary School (Warrensville Heights), Lincoln-West High School (Cleveland), Shaker Heights High School, and Hawken School (Gates Mills).<\/p>\n
Some of the distinguished\u00a0lecturers the ETHS program has\u00a0hosted include:<\/p>\n
Alice Randall,\u00a0novelist and musician,\u00a0author of The Wind Done Gone<\/em> (2001), Pushkin and the Queen of Spades<\/em> (2004) and Rebel Yell<\/em> (2009)<\/p>\n Preston King, American academic and civil rights leader<\/p>\n Theri Pickens, poet and scholar of African American Studies, Arab American Studies, and Disability Studies and professor at Bates College<\/p>\n Thomas Glave, award-winning author and professor of English, teaching courses in creative writing and\u00a0African American, Caribbean,\u00a0black British, and\u00a0queer literatures at SUNY–Binghamton<\/p>\n Reavis Mitchell, Professor of History, Dean of the School of Humanities \/ Social and Behavioral Sciences, Fisk University<\/p>\n Olayinka Hassan, Film Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Students interested in the African American Studies concentration within the Ethnic Studies minor may take\u00a0a variety of courses housed in numerous departments within the College of Arts and Sciences. In addition to taking ETHS 252A: Introduction to African American Studies and ETHS 251: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Religion in the United States, students concentrating in African American Studies have options in Political Science, HIstory, English, Economics, Cognitive Science, Religious Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Sociology, to name just a few disciplines.<\/p>\n The ETHS Program also partners with the Kelvin Smith Library\u00a0to create outreach programs\u00a0with Cleveland schools so that young students\u00a0enrolled in\u00a0academic institutions in proximity to our campus have opportunities to discuss literature and theory with prominent African American\u00a0authors and scholars of African and African American Studies.<\/p>\n