WELCOME TO 1619: JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

1619: JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES (1619: JAAS) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published biennially. It provides an available space for researchers, faculty, students, and scholars in the CSCU system and beyond to share their investigation of significant historical, cultural, political, social, theoretical, philosophical and economic issues affecting the African American and Black experience in the United States. The aim of the journal is to increase access to scholarship, commentary and awareness in the vital field of African American Studies to professionals from the K-12 to University level in the New England region and nationwide.

This first volume is launched in commemoration of the arrival of "twenty-odd Africans" at Fort Comfort, Va. (Hampton, Va) that began the 400-year tenure of African Americans in the English speaking America--these United States.  This volume features commentary from Dr. Benjamin Foster, Jr. who is a recipient of National Honors by the National 400-year Commemoration Committee, on this day in Hampton, Va.

A second featured section is that of student papers from the Spring 2019 capstone course in the Department of Philosophy on W.E.B. Dubois.  Dr. Felton O. Best co-authored each of the selections in this section with the students.

Volume 1: No. 2, will be published in the Spring of 2020.  If you are interested in submitting a manuscript for consideration, please go to the African American Studies homepage here and submit using this link.

If you have questions or comments, please email the Editor at brownw@ccsu.edu.

Thank you.

Walton Brown Foster, Editor
August 25, 2019

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