Thank you for visiting the ScholarWorks website for Amilcar Shabazz, professor in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies. My research interests include African Americans in the history of education, cultural and political movements against oppression, and comparative studies in the African world. I am active in educational policy affairs and public history.
Social Justice
"Giving Back to the Community!" Interview with Gil Scott-Heron, February 1995, Gaither Reporter (1996)
GIL SCOTT-HERON is a legendary musician in the tradition of Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Larry...
Dope is Death (1987)
"Dope is Death" started as a study document for revolutionary nationalist cadres in the 1980s...
Statement by New Afrikan Prisoner of War Kuwasi Balagoon (1983)
As a member of Kuwasi Balagoon's political defense collective, called the National Committee to Defend...
History
Review of They Too Call Alabama Home by Richard Bailey, Alabama Review (2002)
A review of a historical reference work on notable blacks who lived in the state...
Putting Black Voices In Print, Black Issues in Higher Education (1998)
A discussion of Philip Foner's magisterial collection of African American orations.
One for the Crows, One for the Crackers: The Strange Career of Public Higher Education in Houston, Texas, The Houston Review (1998)
The dynamics of how the dual system of higher education in Jim Crow America emerged...
Review of Soulfires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence, The Journal of Negro History (1997)
A review of a literary and cultural anthology on African American males on love and...
The Forty Acres Documents: An Introduction, The Forty Acres Documents: What Did the United States Really Promise the People Freed from Slavery? (1994)
The Forty Acres Documents: What Did the United States Really Promise the People Freed from...
Education
How Deep the Well: History and the Journey from Selma to Timbuktu, The Bus Stop (2001)
A summary of an international education summit in Mali in 2001 and the follow-up visit...
Scholar-Activist Exemplar 1: G. I. Forum v. Texas Education Agency, Selected Works of Amilcar Shabazz (1999)
Herein are some primary documents related to my involvement as an expert witness in the...
One for the Crows, One for the Crackers: The Strange Career of Public Higher Education in Houston, Texas, The Houston Review (1998)
The dynamics of how the dual system of higher education in Jim Crow America emerged...
Dope is Death (1987)
"Dope is Death" started as a study document for revolutionary nationalist cadres in the 1980s...
Statement by New Afrikan Prisoner of War Kuwasi Balagoon (1983)
As a member of Kuwasi Balagoon's political defense collective, called the National Committee to Defend...
Invited Lectures
The American Democratic Tradition & the Quest for Access & Equity in Higher Education: The Browns and Blues of Social Change, The Cornell Law Review 2004 Symposium (2004)
In this lecture I revisit the meaning of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education...
Racial Terror & the Attempt to Stop the Desegregation of Lamar State College of Technology, Beaumont [Texas] History Conference (2004)
The desegregation of Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont was marked by racial terror....