No restrictions apply to this collection.
Additions are expected.
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.
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.
Africana Studies Department, circa 1990s-2023; Box and Folder/File Name; Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library, Barnard College.
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.
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.
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Michael Dyson at Barnard College
Creating Dangerously: Edwidge Danticat
Fugitive Freedoms: A Race, Politics, and Blues Circuit Before Civil Rights: 2013-10-18
La Bastarda: A Reading and Conversation with Trifonia Melibea Obono, April 19, 2018
Reading by author Trifonia Melibea Obono, followed by a conversation between the author and two scholars. Event host: Africana/History. Held in Sulzberger Parlor
Lewis Ezekoye Distinguished Lecture: Jaki Shelton Green, November 21, 2019
Lecture/discussion. Held in Diana Event Oval. Event sponsor: Africana Studies
2023 Lewis-Ezekoye Lecture: Dr. Nnedi Okorafor, January 26, 2023
Held in: Diana Center Event Oval
Finding La Negrita - The Black Madonna and the Legacy of Costa Rica's Afro-descendants, October 27, 2023
A reading by Professor Natasha Gordon-Chipembere, in conversation with Professor Tamara Walker. Held in Diana Event Oval