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The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American history and culture.
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

AASC's Editor in Chief helps make history personal for a group of Brooklyn students.

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Maureen Honey and Venetria K. Patton

Professors Honey and Patton examine the Harlem Renaissance in their revised introduction to Double-Take: A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology.

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