Africana Studies as Missed Education: From Carter Woodson to Afro Futures

In February 2021, University of Florida's African American Studies Program held this virtual event featuring Dr. Gregg Carr of Howard University.

In 1933, Carter Woodson’s “The Miseducation of the Negro” offered a US apartheid-era critique of how educational systems hindered Black community development. A generation later, post-US apartheid-era Black communities forced the establishment of Black Studies programs in K-12 through higher education. These formations have since struggled to reconcile foundational objectives of Black-centered intellectual work with White-facing concerns, exemplified most recently by a proliferation of “anti-racist” discourses.

This event discussed the need for placing Africana intellectual genealogies at the center of Black/Africana Studies practice in order to realize the promise of Woodson’s earlier vision.