Africana Studies Department, circa 1997-2023

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Creator:

Barnard College. Department of Africana Studies

Abstract:

This collection consists of materials from the Barnard College Africana Studies department.

Extent:

0.01 Linear Feet (1 folder) and 36.4 Gigabytes

Language:

English

Scope and content:

The collection contains materials that document the Africana Studies Department at Barnard College. Included in the collection are flyers from film events circa 1997, two copies of a booklet from a 2012 Ntozake Shange performance and conference at the Diana Center, and event recordings and photographs.

The digital images document a 2004 event sponsored by the Africana Studies department at Barnard who hosted Black historian Michael Eric Dyson. They include photographs of Michael Eric Dyson and Barnard President Judith Shapiro.

Local call number:

BC13.07

Processing information:

This collection was processed and the finding aid was written by Amy Lau in October 2015. Additional computer disks were transferred and processed in 2018 by student associates. The finding aid was updated by Olivia Newsome in 2023. In August 2025, Martha Tenney processed a digital accrual. In September 2025, Olivia Newsome updated this finding aid.

Descriptive Rules Used: Finding aid adheres to the prescribed by Describing Archives: a Content Standard. Machine readable finding aid encoded in EAD 2002.

Finding aid written in English.

Acquisition information:

Paper records were transferred to the Archives from the Africana Studies department. Born-digital images werwe transferred from the Office of Commmunications records. Event recordings transferred from Instructional Media and Technology Services (IMATS) in 2025.

Arrangement:

The archivist arranged this collection chronologically at the file level. The born digital materials on the transferred computer disks, as part of the processing work done by Archives staff, some intellectual reorganization was undertaken to allow the digital materials to be easily integrated into a single system of arrangement.

Accruals:

Additions are expected.

Physical location:

This collection is located in the Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library. To use this collection, please contact the Barnard Archives and Special Collections at 212.854.4079 or archives@barnard.edu.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Preferred citation:

Africana Studies Department, circa 1990s-2023; Box and Folder/File Name; Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library, Barnard College.

Access and use

Restrictions:

No restrictions apply to this collection.

Terms of access:

Reproductions may be made for research purposes.

No permission is required for reproductions of materials in the public domain or uses that fall within fair use exemptions to copyright as defined under U.S. Copyright Law.

Barnard College retains copyright of materials created as part of its business operations. To request permission to reproduce these types of materials, please contact us at archives@barnard.edu.

This collection may also contain materials created by others, for which copyright is not held by the College. In order to reproduce these materials, permission from the Archives is not required, but it is researchers' responsibility to determine and obtain any necessary permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or other rights.

Please see our Reproductions, Copyright, and Citing Archives page for more information and contact us at archives@barnard.edu with any questions.

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