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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...

Main

They Came in Chains But their Minds Were FirmThey Came in Chains but their Minds were Firm: Ruminating on 400 Years of African American History “If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile...

The Voice of DuBois in the 21st Century: Elijah Anderson’s Emergence as an Urban Ethnographic Black Studies Scholar           Dr. Elijah Anderson was the Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences and Sociology at the...

THE AUTOPSY OF DYING BLACK INSTITUTIONS IN AMERICAThere has been a multileveled and systemic assault to dismantle Black institutions in America. This dismantling of Black institutions is a causative response...

“Cops are Wonderful”: Ed Koch and the Refusal to Contest Police Brutality         In a July 2011 interview Ed Koch, who served as Mayor from 1978 to 1989, reflected on his relationship with the police during...

The Right to Vote Shall Not Be Suppressed! Allegations of Voter Suppression in the Georgia 2018 Gubernatorial Race          On January 14, 2019, I visited the Georgia State Capitol building for the first time. As I walked through the majestic...

Part One: African Americans and International Social JusticeThis discussion will appear in two parts.  Part II will be included in Vol. 1: No. 2, January 2020.             The African...

Students

Toward a Philosophy of Race: W.E.B Du Bois and Critical Race         The writings of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois are both prolific and voluminous. His contributions to social sciences such as sociology,...

The Twoness of Capitalism and W.E.B. Du Bois’ Double-Consciousness: The Emergence of Identities in a Capitalist Society            In the capitalist economy, there are relations among Americans that are distinguishable by their economic...

FEATURED SECTION: STUDENT WORK-CO-AUTHORED WITH DR. FELTON O. BESTWe are pleased to include selections co-authored by Dr. Felton O. Best and students in the African American Studies program at the senior and graduate...

The Souls of White Folk :  The Development of a Double Consciousness in the Minds of America’s Original Privileged Class              The white man in America (WMIA), has developed an acute double consciousness in the post-1965 Great...

Editor in Chief

Dr. Walton Brown-Foster

 

Editorial Board

Dr. Felton O. Best (CCSU)

Dr. Stacey Close, (ECSU)

Dr. Benjamin Foster, Jr. (CCSU)

Dr. Jane Gates (CSCU)