African American Studies Program

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - President Barack Obama

"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated." - Coretta Scott King

The African American Studies Program of the University of Texas at El Paso seeks to become the cynosure of scholarship and discourse on those of African descent, both their ancestors and progeny, in local and global communities, and in relationship to other communities and groups. This is to be achieved by exploration and understanding of old and new scholarship, curriculum transformation, a distinct presence in the community, involvement in public policy debate, critical race and gender theory, and special research attention to questions and issues arising and radiating first and foremost from the southwestern African American experience.