In the fall of 1969, the Six Institutions' Consortium began a 3-phase program on African and Afro-American Studies Curriculum. This project is based on the continuing interest and purpose of the consortium to pool the resources and strengthen member institutions in the direction of achieving the overall quality improvement and services that they…

In the fall of 1969, the Six Institutions' Consortium began a 3-phase program on African and Afro-American Studies Curriculum. This project is based on the continuing interest and purpose of the consortium to pool the resources and strengthen member institutions in the direction of achieving the overall quality improvement and services that they…

This document presents the proceedings of an invitational conference on African and Afro-American Studies. Papers presented at the conference were: (1) Negritude in Retrospect; (2) The Assertation of Blackness in the United States and Africa; (3) The Afro-American Materials in the Predominantly White High School. Discussions were centered around…

In the course of the Six Institutions' Consortium 3-year curriculum development project in Afro-American Studies, it became abundantly clear to faculty and student participants that the most viable curriculum that can be developed must be interdisciplinary. In response to this conviction, a seminar was held to emphasize the need for an approach to…

The author suggest six methods of approaching Black Studies: (1) study of the contributions of Africans to world culture; (2) study of the influences of African culture on white culture; (3) interdisciplinary study; (4) research designed to test a hypothesis; (5) use of the novel as a teaching tool; and (6) use of historical materials in the…

Elementary instructional materials are offered in this guide for teachers to help them learn and teach about Africa simultaneously. Interdisciplinary African materials and suggested activities are integrated into the total curriculum. Emphasis is upon relating the many African contributions which resulted in a fuller and better life for all. In…

This volume is the first of a three-part course of study for secondary students. The entire course is designed to take six to eight weeks. This unit is concerned with life as Africans knew it in their homeland, before the incursions of the slave traders. While the introductory section describes the traumatic process of being uprooted and enslaved,…

This is a student workbook in African American studies used in the Detroit, Michigan public schools in 1978-79. The workbook contains student exercises in African history, culture, geography, languages, architecture, folktales, food, and artifacts. The continent of Africa is covered in units on Egypt, North Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, and…

Problems encountered by language teachers involved in teaching culture are discussed in the introductory remarks of this paper. Leopold Senghor's definition of negritude as it is expressed primarily through literature is equated with the "...sum total of the values of the civilization of the African world." An educational experiment conducted at…

This paper treats the Afro-Brazilian fetish cults found throughout Brazil and examines the syncretism of these cults with Catholicism. The religious practices of the "macumbas" (deities of the Afro-Brazilian cults), ritual music, and the ethnicity of the Negroes from both southern and northern Brazil are discussed. Frequently, excerpts…

The black American has played a significant part in the development of the United States and the making of its institutions, but unfortunately historians have failed to objectively record and properly deal with Negro history. This instructional guide for secondary students, written in outline form, attempts to portray Negro history as an integral…

The African-American curriculum guide for secondary students endeavors to bridge the gap of misunderstanding between blacks and whites and, further, to enhance the esteem of black people. The prefacing unit on prejudice provides a unique feature compared to most guides in that it encourages students toward self examination of their personalities…

A framework of the historical development of African Americans is provided in these social studies units designed for secondary students. The purpose of the guide is to assist teachers in presenting an unbiased view of American history which includes the rich cultural heritage of Africa, thereby giving students an understanding of the significance…

This course of study was written as part of a total effort to revise curriculum to fit the quinmester administrative organization of Miami schools. The major intent is to provide a broad framework of goals and objectives, content, teaching strategies, class activities, and materials all related to a prescribed course of study. The guide is divided…

This report provides a description of a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad study trip to Brazil. The central purpose of the trip was to establish a basis for further development of curricula which promotes intercultural understanding through study of cultural influences of minority groups. The focus was on African and Iberian carryover into the…