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Title: | The development of African studies in the United States |
Author: | Dressel, Carol A. |
Year: | 1966 |
Periodical: | African Studies Bulletin (ISSN 0568-1537) |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 66-73 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa United States |
Subject: | research |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/523252 |
Abstract: | The earliest interest in Africa among institutions of higher education in the USA was probably that of denominational colleges which trained missionaries for Africa and other areas; e.g. the Hartford Seminary Foundation. Interest in African anthropology dates back to 1927, at Northwestern University. It is after the 2nd World War that African studies programms were developed, with Ford Foundation grants, at other universities such as Harvard and Boston. In 1957 the African Studies Association was formed. Under the National Defense Education Act (1958) facilities were created for instruction in African languages. Several congresses were held dealing with the organization of African studies. Great influences on the development of African studies were exercised by Melville F. Herskovits. Characteristics which are believed to be generally true of organized African studies programs have been described by David Brokensha, who also wrote 'African Studies in the United States' (African Studies Bulletin 7 (1964), no. 1; and 8 (1965), no. 1). Bibliography. |