Summary Information
UW-Milwaukee Department of Africology Records
1968-2017
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Department of Africology.
Office of the Chair
UWM Archival Collection 7
- 3.8 cubic ft. (7 boxes)
- approximately 75 web captures
- 177 digital files (3.8 GB)
UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)
The collection contains miscellaneous records of the Department
of Africology (formerly the Department of Afro-American Studies) and some items from its
predecessor, the Center for Afro-American Culture. The records document the years of
transition from a center to a full department within the College of Letters & Science
including some of the problems involved such as the need for strong leadership and
credentialed faculty. The files document the daily activities of the department as it
conducted undergraduate instruction, campus and community events, and its own general
administrative functions.
English
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Biography/History
The Center for Afro-American Culture began in the fall of 1969 as a response to the
agitation on the part of African American students and faculty in the late 1960s. Dr. Daniel
Burrell directed the center until 1971 when it became the Department of Afro-American
Studies and an academic unit of the College of Letters and Science. It was not until 1978
that the department was approved by the Regents to grant a bachelor's degree in the major.
Up until 1978 the department offered mainly freshman and sophomore level classes in
conjunction with other departments like African American history, literature, composition,
economics, politics, and other current issues facing the African American community. The
culture of Africa itself was included for study within the curriculum whenever possible with
courses such as several levels of the Swahili language.
The following information is edited from Frank A. Cassell, J. Martin Klotsche, and
Frederick I. Olson, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: A
Historical Profile, 1885-1992 (Milwaukee: UWM Foundation, Inc., 1992:
Afro-American Studies reflects the growth and development of a community of scholars and
students who share a professional and intellectual commitment to the rigorous, systematic,
theoretical and empirical enquiry into the range of phenomena that constitutes the
substratum of Black people's life experiences and structures the context as well as the
content of their life prospects.
The B.A. in Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee fosters a
sound analytical and empirical knowledge of the life histories and prospects of African
Americans. It scrutinizes objects, actions and events affecting the well-being of Blacks
in America, and in regions of the world with the largest concentrations of Black people --
Africa, North and South America, and the Caribbean. Additionally, the B.A. in
Afro-American Studies educates students in the best traditions of the liberal arts and
sciences, and makes a significant contribution to knowledge pertaining to the past,
present and future roles of Blacks in structuring qualitatively as well as quantitatively
the actualities and possibilities of life in their society.
These goals are achieved through a framework of carefully crafted requirements. Every
student in Afro-American Studies is required to take at least one course each in logic and
statistics. Majors must also gain a sense of the foundations of African American Studies,
regardless of their areas of concentration. They are thus required to take one course in
the Political Economy of African America and one on the Culture and Society of African
America. The student may then elect to concentrate one of two options: Option A (The
Political Economy of African America) or Option B (The Culture and Society of African
America.) In either case, 24 credits are required to complete the major.
Students can also minor in Afro-American Studies. The purpose of the minor is to expose
students to a range of concepts, theories and phenomena that ground the discipline of
African American Studies. Students are required to take 18 credits to complete the
minor.
Through its curriculum, the department prepares students for career opportunities in
government, teaching, business, the professions, and social services. In doing so,
Afro-American Studies lay a foundation for advanced studies not only in the discipline of
African American Studies (Africology), but also in such fields as economics, politics,
sociology, history, English, law and public administration. Some graduates have become
lawyers and physicians, and others have pursued careers or studies in library science,
theology, and psychology.
The department is dedicated to lending its expertise on issues affecting the African
American community in particular and the general population. Faculty members serve on the
boards of organizations such as the Ko-Thi Dance Company, and are active members of other
social, political, economic and religious institutions/associations.
In 1994, the department was renamed the Department of Africology to "more accurately
[reflect] the department's curriculum, the teaching and research interest of the faculty, as
well as the distinctiveness and scope of the discipline it names", according to UWM Faculty
Document 1907, which approved the change.
Directors of Center for Afro-American Culture
| 1970-1974 |
Daniel Burrell
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| 1974-1975 |
Lionel Barrow Jr.
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| 1975-1976 |
Joseph Carpenter
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| 1976-1977 |
Maxine Nimitz
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| 1977-1978 |
Harold Rose
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| 1978-1988 |
Winston A. Van Horne
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| 1988-1989 |
Patrick D. Bellegarde-Smith
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| 1989-1994 |
Osei-Mensah Aborampah
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| 1994-1995 |
Patrick D. Bellegarde-Smith
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| 1995-1998 |
Winston A. Van Horne
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| 1998-2001 |
Dorothea D. Mbalia
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| 2001-2002 |
Osei-Mensah Aborampah
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| 2002-2003 |
Bartholomew Armah
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| 2003-2005 |
Anthony Lemelle
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| 2005-2006 |
Patrick D. Bellegarde-Smith
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| 2006-2012 |
Joyce Kirk
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| 2012-2013 |
Dorothea D. Mbalia
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| 2013-2016 |
Erin Winkler
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| 2016-2017 |
Anika Wilson
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| 2017- |
Jeff Sommets
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Scope and Content Note
The files contain mostly correspondence; course and curriculum information in the form of
syllabi, tests, and assignments; and minutes of department committees. The folders about the
center include letters of support from people on campus and within the community, proposal
documents with budgets and class lists, and the mission statements of the center. The
correspondence of the department is from and to on- and off-campus individuals and documents
the ongoing development of the academic program. Some of the files deal with UWM African
American students and faculty and how they related to the campus and inner-city
communities.
There are several folders of department and faculty minutes, but the dates are scattered
and there are no complete runs. The collection also includes summaries of student
evaluations (1984-1990) which reveal the thoughts of students at the time about the courses
and the university at large. Also included are memos and brochures by and about the
department.
The most recent addition to this collection, in addition to adding to the above runs of
content, also includes a large number of folders concerning the creation of the Africology
PhD program in 2008. At the time, the program was the first Africology PhD program in
Wisconsin and one of only five in the United States.
Arrangement of the Materials
The files are organized alphabetically by subject, then chronologically.
The collection is organized into the following series:
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General Files, 1968-2011
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Web Archives, 2015-2017
Preferred Citation
Citation Guide for Primary Sources
Related Material in the UWM Libraries
Administrative/Restriction Information
There are no access restrictions on the materials, and the collection is open to all
members of the public in accordance with state law.
The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of libel,
privacy, and copyright which may be involved in the use of this collection (Wisconsin
Statutes 19.21-19.39).
The Dept. of Afro-American Studies transferred the collection to the Archives in
September 1988. Additional material was separated from the Winston Van Horne papers in May
2015.
Web crawling is managed through the Internet Archive's Archive-It services. This series
includes links to both the university's collection and the Internet Archive's public
collection. Web records from UWM are collected on a semi-annual basis. Crawls of the UWM
Website may be performed at more frequent intervals in cases of major events, significant
additions or changes to the UWM Website or the websites of schools and colleges, etc.
Social Media feeds are crawled on an as-requested basis.
Julee Bokelman processed the collection between January and April 1993 at the Archives.
Zac Baldauf and Brad Houston processed the materials from the Van Horne papers (accession
2012-038) in Winter/Spring 2015. Phyllis Reske processed some additional materials in July
2016 (Brad Houston supervised). Brad Houston and Claire Dinkelman updated the finding aid
in April and July 2017 to include information on the Web Series. Christel Maass added a
few additional items to the collection in November 2017.
The records in the Web Archives Series were collected by the Internet Archive’s Wayback
Machine and Archive-It Web Harvesting tools.
As of October 5, 2020, all electronic files were accessible on a Intel Core i5-8500 CPU
(3.00 GHz, 8.00 GB RAM) running Windows 10 Education Version 2018. Software used to access
the files includes Adobe Reader XI, Microsoft Office 2007, Windows Picture and Fax Viewer
and Windows Media Player.
The collection includes records in the following file formats:
- Microsoft Word Document 97-2003 [.doc]
- Microsoft Word for Windows 2007 onwards [.docx]
- Microsoft WordPerfect [.wpd]
Brad Houston removed the audio reels from box 2 in Spring 2015.
Contents List
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UWM Archival Collection 7
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Records, 1968-2017
3.8 cubic ft. (7 boxes); 55 digital files 1.29 MB
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Series: 1. General Files, 1968-2011
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Electronic Folder
\Academic Materials, 2007-2010\
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Academic Materials, 2007-2010
4 digital files (113 KB)
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Box
1
Folder
1
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Ad Hoc Committee on Afro-American Studies and Services for Black Students,
1977
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Box
4
Folder
1
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Advertisement of Courses, 1984
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Box
7
Folder
7
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The Africology Spark Newsletter,
2000-2001
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Box
1
Folder
2
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Afro-American Studies Proposal, 1975-1976
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Box
1
Folder
3
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Afro-American Studies Reports, 1972-1974
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Box
1
Folder
4
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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.,
1970-1973
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Box
1
Folder
5
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Annual Academic Activities, 1973
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Box
1
Folder
6
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An Anthropological Look at Milwaukee's Black Community,
undated
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Box
1
Folder
7
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Association of Black Professionals, 1973
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Box
1
Folder
8
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Barrow, Lionel C., 1974-1975
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Box
1
Folder
9
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Black and Beautiful, 1970, 1985
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Box
1
Folder
10
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Black Community Student Alliance, 1972
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Black History Week
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Box
1
Folder
11
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1975-1976
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Box
1
Folder
12
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1978-1979
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Box
1
Folder
13
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Black Student Union, 1972
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Box
1
Folder
14
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Black Vibrations, 1971-1972
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Box
1
Folder
15
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Brochures, 1971-1983
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Box
1
Folder
16
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Burrell, Daniel, 1969
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Center for Afro-American Culture,
1968-1972
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Electronic Folder
Folder
\Box01\
Folder
Folder17\
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Digital
16 digital files (522 MB)
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Box
1
Folder
17
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Physical
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Center for Afro-American Studies
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Box
1
Folder
18
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1969-1971
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Box
1
Folder
19
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Minutes, 1969-1970
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Box
1
Folder
20
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Certificate in Afro-American Studies,
undated
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Box
1
Folder
21
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Community Education Program, 1970
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Correspondence
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1968-1977
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Electronic Folder
Folder
\Box01\
Folder
Folder22-23\
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Digital
28 digital files (872 MB)
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Box
1
Folder
22-29
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Physical
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Box
1
Folder
30-32
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1973-1978
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Box
4
Folder
2-11
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1978-2004
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Box
1
Folder
33
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1987-1988
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Electronic Folder
\Correspondence, Patrick Bellegarde-Smith,
1986-1990\
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Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick, 1986-1990
8 digital files (22.6 KB)
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Box
2
Folder
12
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Course and Curriculum Committee, 1972-1973
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Course and Curriculum Files
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Box
1
Folder
34-36
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1970-1971
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Box
2
Folder
1-3
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1971
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Box
2
Folder
4-5
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1973-1974
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Box
2
Folder
6-10
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1977-1981
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Box
2
Folder
11
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1987-1988
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Course Materials
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Box
5
Folder
1-2
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Africology 111, 2010-2012
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Box
5
Folder
3
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Africology 113, 2011
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Box
5
Folder
4
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Intro to Afro-American Studies, 1978
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Box
5
Folder
5
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Seminar on Slavery, 2012
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Box
5
Folder
6
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Urban Violence, 1980
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Box
5
Folder
7
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Crusaders, 1981
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Box
2
Folder
13
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Dance Courses, 1974-1975
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Box
5
Folder
8
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Dean Marshall Goodman, 1995
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Box
2
Folder
14
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Departmental Minutes, 1971-1979
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Executive Committee
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Box
2
Folder
15
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1974-1990
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Box
5
Folder
9-12
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1974-2005
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Faculty Minutes
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Box
2
Folder
16
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1972-1979
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Box
5
Folder
13
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2008
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Box
2
Folder
17
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Film Project We Own the Night,
undated
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Box
2
Folder
18
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Five Year Review, Undergraduate, 1980-1985
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Electronic Folder
\General, 1993-2000, undated\
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General e-records, 1993-2000, undated
7 digital files (46.0 KB)
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Box
5
Folder
14
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GER Requirement, 1982
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Box
7
Folder
8
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Ghana Initiative Report, 2000
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Box
5
Folder
15
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Graduate Courses, 2011
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Box
2
Folder
19
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History of the Department, undated
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Box
2
Folder
20
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Interdisciplinary Major in Afro-American Studies,
1974-1975
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Box
2
Folder
21
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Lecture and Lyceum Committee, 1973-1974
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Box
5
Folder
16
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Major, 1979
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Box
5
Folder
17
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Major Authors of Ethnic/Afro-American Studies,
1981
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Box
2
Folder
22
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Major in Afro-American Studies, 1972
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Box
2
Folder
23
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Major-Proposal Information, 1973-1977
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Box
2
Folder
24
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Mass Communication and Afro-American Studies,
1972-1974
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Box
5
Folder
18
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National Council for Black Studies, 1979
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Box
2
Folder
25
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Organizational Information, 1975-1976
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PhD in Africology
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Box
5
Folder
19-21
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1987-2008
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Electronic Folder
\PhD In Africology Administrative Materials,
1992, undated\
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1992, undated
4 digital files (167 KB)
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Box
6
Folder
1-6
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1995-2011
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Box
7
Folder
1
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2008-2011
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Box
7
Folder
2
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Planning Document, 1985
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Box
2
Folder
26
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Planning Documents, 1981-1990
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Box
2
Folder
27
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Program Expansion Questionnaires, undated
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Box
2
Folder
28
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Project 26 Questionnaires, undated
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Box
2
Folder
29
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"Public Service Careers" Students,
1972-1973
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Box
2
Folder
30
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Public Service Committee, 1974
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Box
2
Folder
31
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Rapport Afro-American/Community Concern Committee,
1971
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Reports, 1969-1979
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Electronic Folder
Folder
\Box02\
Folder
Folder32\
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Digital
43 digital files (1.40 GB)
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Box
2
Folder
32
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Physical
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Box
2
Folder
33
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School of Education, 1974-1975
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Box
2
Folder
34
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School of Social Welfare, 1974-1975
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Spaights, Ernest, 1968-1969
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Electronic Folder
Folder
\Box02\
Folder
Folder35\
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Digital
32 digital files (1.02 GB)
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Box
2
Folder
35
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Physical
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Box
2
Folder
36
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Sponsor and Co-sponsorships, 1974-1977
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Box
2
Folder
37
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Staff Lists, 1973-1974
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Box
3
Folder
1-3
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Staff Memos, 1970-1973
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Box
3
Folder
4
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Student Evaluations, 1984-1990
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Electronic Folder
\Syllabi, 1989-2011\
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Syllabi, 1989-2011
22 digital files (349 KB)
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Symposium
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Electronic Folder
\Symposium, 1987-2000\
Symposium, 1987\
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1993
1 digital file (2.97 KB)
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Box
7
Folder
3
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1993
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Electronic Folder
\Symposium, 1987-2000\
Symposium, 1997\
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1997
1 digital file (37.5 KB)
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Electronic Folder
\Symposium, 1987-2000\
Symposium, 2000\
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2000
3 digital file (76.7 KB)
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Box
3
Folder
5
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Symposium on Africa, 1971
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Box
3
Folder
6
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Taking Care of Business, 1981
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Box
3
Folder
7
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UWM Inner City Program, 1970
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Box
7
Folder
4-6
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UW System Five-Year Review, 1985
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Series: 2. Web Archives, 2015-2017
approximately 75 captures
: Homepage of the Department of Africology, in the College of Letters and Science.
: The records in the Web Archives Series were collected by the Internet Archive’s
Wayback Machine and Archive-It Web Harvesting tools.
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Web-Archive 1
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Archive-It Capture, 2015 August 27-2017 March 24
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Web-Archive 2
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Wayback Machine Capture, 2015 May 28-2017 March 24
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