Blending history, political economy, performance, and data science, Duke’s BS in African and African American Studies empowers students to analyze the past while designing equitable futures. The curriculum traces trans-Atlantic migrations, colonial resistance movements, and contemporary diasporic creativity across literature, hip-hop, and digital activism. Students conduct oral-history interviews in Durham’s Hayti neighborhood, use GIS to visualize redlining’s health impacts, and prototype policy briefs that center Afrofuturist ethics. A senior studio pairs scholars with community organizations in Ghana, Johannesburg, or the U.S. South, translating research into public scholarship and advocacy.
Interactive map tracing slave ship routes with mortality analytics
Data-driven study on environmental racism in Gulf-Coast oil refining
Digital exhibit of Harlem Renaissance art using IIIF standards
Podcast on Afrofuturism and climate resilience
Machine-learning model detecting racial bias in sentencing records
Graphic novel retelling of Queen Nzinga’s resistance tactics
Mobile app archiving West African textile patterns and stories
Community oral-history archive on Black farming cooperatives
VR recreation of 1960 Greensboro sit-ins for classroom use
Geo-spatial analysis of Black migration to tech hubs since 2000
Policy white paper on reparations-funded green infrastructure
Sonification of civil-rights protest data for immersive exhibitions
Ethnographic short film on African immigrant entrepreneurship in Durham
Open-source syllabus toolkit on global anti-colonial movements
Comparative study of Black liberation theology and Latin-American liberation theology
Machine-vision project cataloguing lost African heritage sites
Digital poetry slam platform connecting spoken-word artists globally
Public-facing website on the history of HBCU STEM programs
Algorithmic audit of music-streaming payouts to African artists
Design sprint creating Afrofuturist urban planning scenarios
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