Welcome to CSAAD

Advancing cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research on both Africa and its diaspora.

Citadelle Laferrière, Milot, Haiti
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Welcome to CSAAD

Advancing cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research on both Africa and its diaspora.

Salvador, Bahia
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Welcome to CSAAD

Advancing cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research on both Africa and its diaspora.

Sirimou, Mali
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The mission of the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD) at NYU is to advance cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research on both Africa and its diaspora in ways that bring that scholarship into sustained conversation.

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Too Dark for the World: Oceania, Anti-Colonialism, and the Black Pacific

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CSAAD Afro-Asia Project Dr. Quito J. Swan Wednesday, January 29, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 20 Cooper SQ Floor 3 Suite NEW YORK, NY 10003 Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98598651350 Quito J. Swan's talk, Too Dark for the World, explores Black internationalism and decolonization in Oceania. Drawing from archival research conducted across Oceania, the Americas, Africa, and Europe, […]

Diasporic Back Chat: The Inter-War Activist Strategies of Black Nationalist Women

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CSAAD Book Launch Lecture Event Dr. Natanya Duncan Monday, February 3rd, 2025 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 20 Cooper SQ Floor 3 Suite NEW YORK, NY 10003 Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/92704020760 During the 1920s and 1930s, women members of the largest social justice movement of the 20th Century, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), […]

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