Thank you for visiting the ScholarWorks website for Amilcar Shabazz, professor and chair of 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.
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...
History
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...
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...
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....
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...