Title: Winston A. Van Horne Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1972-2011

Creator:

• Van Horne, Winston A.

Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 341

Quantity:

• 3.2 cubic ft. (8 boxes)
• 1 videocassette (VHS)
• 156 digital files (5.93 MB)

Repository:

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives Department

Archival Location:

UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Papers of Winston Van Horne, a former professor in the UW-Milwaukee Africology Department and a leader in the national Africology field. The papers include correspondence related to Van Horne's service as chair of the Afro-American Studies and Africology programs, as well as materials related to Van Horne's involvement in the Community Brainstorming Conference. A large portion of the collection is devoted to manuscripts of a selection of Van Horne's publications.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-mil-uwmmss0341

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Winston Van Horne was born in Jamaica in 1944 and received his PhD in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1972. Following teaching stints at Ohio State University and Ohio University's Center for Afro-American Studies, Van Horne joined the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1978 as chair of the Afro-American Studies Program, a position he held until 1987. He later served as chair from 1994 to 1998. Under Van Horne's leadership, the program grew in both size and prominence, becoming a full academic department in 1986 and then expanding its scope in 1994, when the department was renamed as the Department of Africology. Van Horne also helped UWM implement a PhD program in Africology in 2008, which at the time was only the eighth such program in the nation.

Besides his work with the Africology Department, Van Horne was active in University governance and service. He served on the Faculty Senate for most of his UWM career and various other faculty standing committees throughout his tenure, including the University Library Committee and the Minority/Diversity Committee. Van Horne also served as director of the UW-System Institute for Race and Ethnicity between 1987 and 1997, in which capacity he helped plan events and evaluate grant applications from scholars across the UW System. Within the Milwaukee community, Van Horne helped found the Community Brainstorming Conference, a monthly forum for discussing issues facing the Milwaukee African-American community.

Van Horne died on May 23, 2013. On April 26, 2013, Room 206 in Mitchell Hall was renamed the Winston Van Horne Seminar Room following a resolution from the Faculty Senate honoring Van Horne's service to UWM and the Africology Department. A campus memorial service was held on October 9, 2013, during which campus leadership, former Secretary of State Vel Phillips, and Van Horne's son spoke in memoriam.

The collection is arranged as 3 series:

The Community Brainstorming Conference Files document the activities of, and Van Horne's participation in, the Community Brainstorming Conference (CBC). Included are board meeting minutes, correspondence between Van Horne and other board members, speaker details, and publicity for events hosted by the CBC.

The General Correspondence File is an artificial series assembled from files maintained in various locations in Van Horne's Mitchell Hall office. The files are a combination of correspondence relating to the Afro-American Studies Department, the Institute on Race and Ethnicity, the Community Brainstorming Conference, and Van Horne's own scholarly work. In a few cases, the main correspondent is specifically named in the folder heading, but this series is primarily a chronological file of miscellaneous correspondence.

The Writings and Publications series consists primarily of notes and drafts of various manuscripts and publications by Van Horne, as well as correspondence between Van Horne and collaborators and publishers. Many of these books and articles, particularly the ones pertaining directly to Africology as a discipline, were seminal works in the field at the time of publication, and the files include corrections and notes that illustrate Van Horne's thought process during their composition.

This collection is organized into four series:

1. Community Brainstorming Conference Files, 2003-2011
2. General Correspondence Files, 1982-2011
3. Writings and Publications, 1972-2010
4. Curriculum Vitae, undated

The folders within each series are arranged alphabetically, and thereunder chronologically.

A list of the electronic files in the collection is available in the archives, including information about file formats and creation dates of most of the files in the collection. Consult an archivist for details.

Citation Guide for Primary Sources

• UW-Milwaukee Department of Africology Records. UWM Archival Collection 7.

• UW-Milwaukee Campus Committees Collection. UWM Archival Collection 173.

• UW-System Institute on Race and Ethnicity Records. UWM Archival Collection 173.

Appraisal of the records occurred in Winston Van Horne's Mitchell Hall Office from November 2012-January 2013, during which time staff from the UWM Libraries Collection and Resource Management division accessioned a large number of books and finished publications under separate cover. Many of the files in Van Horne's office had little or no record value and were not accessioned.

A number of files relating to Van Horne's University service were separated from the collection and moved to the records of the Department of Africology, the Institute on Race and Ethnicity, and the Campus Committees Collection.

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials, and the collection is open to all members of the public in accordance with state law.

Use Restrictions

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).

Acquisition Information

Winston Van Horne and the Africology Department transferred accession 2012-038 to the Archives in January 2013.

Processing Information

Brad Houston and Zac Baldauf processed accession 2012-038 during Winter-Spring 2015.

Shiraz Bhathena updated the finding aid after reprocessing the digital files in September 2020.

	Series: 1. Community Brainstorming Conference Files, 2003-2011
Box   1 Folder   1-4	Correspondence, 2003-2011
Box   1 Folder   5	Event Flyers, 1995-2011
Box   1 Folder   6	Proposal to Name a School for Lloyd A. Barbee, 2008
Box   1 Folder   7	Writings, 1996-2009
	Series: 2. General Correspondence, 1982-2011	⇧
	Electronic
Electronic Folder     \Correspondence\   Email\	Email, 1998-1999 Physical Description: 19 digital files (163 KB)
Electronic Folder     \Correspondence\   General\	General, 1989-2009 Physical Description: 75 digital files (2.51 MB)
	Paper
Box   1 Folder   8-11	1982-1989
Box   2 Folder   1-6	1989-1994
Box   3 Folder   1-4	1994-2011
Box   3 Folder   5-6	Committee Work, 1988-1993
Box   3 Folder   7	Zimpher, Nancy, 2000
	Series: 3. Writings and Publications, 1972-2010	⇧
Electronic Folder     \Writings and Publications\	Electronic Physical Description: 54 digital files (2.72 MB)
	Paper
Box   4 Folder   1-4	1972-1995
	"Africology: Considerations Concerning a Discipline"
Box   4 Folder   7	2007
Box   4 Folder   5-6	"Africology: A Discipline of the Twenty-First Century", 1994
	"Africology: A Theory of Forces"
Box   5 Folder   1	2010
Box   5 Folder   2	The American Academy in a Plural Society: Its Obligation to Lead, 1990
Box   5 Folder   3	The Anatomy of Deception, undated
	"The Bell Curve: A Tradition of Racialism"
Box   5 Folder   4	Article Text, 1995
Video   1	Video from Africology Symposium, 1995 Physical Description: Videocassette (VHS)
Box   5 Folder   5	"The Classroom: In Fear of Our Colleagues", 1994
Box   5 Folder   6	"The Concept of Black Power: Its Continued Relevance", 1997
Box   5 Folder   7	Confessions: St. Augustine of Hippo and El-Hajj Malik al Shabazz of Harlem, 1986
Box   5 Folder   8-9	Correspondence, 1982-1986
Box   5 Folder   10	Deception: Considerations on Strategies and Tactics, undated
Box   5 Folder   11	"Does America Dream in Color?", undated
Box   5 Folder   12	"The Dreyfus Affair", 1994
Box   6 Folder   1-3	"For the People's Sake", 1977
Box   6 Folder   4	"The Idea of Paradigm and the Nature of Africology", undated
Box   6 Folder   5	In Quest of Freedom and Equality: Blacks and the American Social Order, undated
Box   6 Folder   6	"Katrina: A Metaphor for the 'Other America' in the Affluent Society", 2006
Box   7 Folder   1	Letter on Solzhenitsyn, 1980
Box   7 Folder   2	Letter to the Editor, 1974
Box   7 Folder   3	Letters and Memos, 2005-2009
Box   7 Folder   4	"'More' or 'Less' the Same: A Comment on the Concept of Societal Overload", undated
Box   7 Folder   5-11	On Deception, 1973
Box   7 Folder   12	On Violence in the City, 2002
Box   7 Folder   13	"One Lecture on the O.J. Simpson Case", 1996
Box   7 Folder   14-15	The Perspective of Political Ideology, undated
	Reviews
Box   7 Folder   16	1985 and undated
Box   7 Folder   17	Race: 20th Century Perspective, 21st Century Progression, 1989-1990
Box   8 Folder   1	Research to Answer What Blacks Ought To Have, 1977
Box   8 Folder   2	Wisdom and Initiation: An Analysis of Fang Tales, Myths, and Legends, 2009
Box   8 Folder   3	The Right to Know, 1979
Box   8 Folder   4	Socrates and King in Jail, undated
Box   8 Folder   5	"Sowell's Fallacy", undated
Box   8 Folder   6	"Tell Me My Friend, Is Affirmative Action Just?", 1977
Box   8 Folder   7-8	Three Concepts of Legitimacy, 2005
Box   8 Folder   9	The Two Faces of Booker T Washington, undated
Box   8 Folder   10	The Violent City of Man, undated
Box   8 Folder   11	White Power Research Materials, undated
	Series: 4. Curriculum Vitae, undated	⇧
Electronic Folder     \Curriculum Vitae\	Electronic Physical Description: 4 digital files (84.3 KB)