Africana Studies

The Africana Studies Program at Bryn Mawr is an interdisciplinary program that centers the histories, politics, intellectual genealogies, and cultural traditions of Black people throughout the African Diaspora, with an emphasis on the Americas (the Caribbean, Latin America, U.S. South(s), and Global South). Africana Studies explores how racial blackness and its entangled categories, such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity, etc., structure the development of the modern world, including its political economy. The program is especially focused on the study of the histories, politics, intellectual genealogies, and cultural contributions of Black women and Black queer and trans folks, who have been and remain at the forefront of Black liberation movements.

The Minor in Africana Studies at Bryn Mawr College trains students to think critically, write analytically, and engage in expansive theoretical and methodological frameworks. Our course offerings, pedagogical commitments, and theoretical underpinnings are grounded in the knowledge-production, study of and value for Black Queer Feminisms in their various iterations and locations.