Attached is a flyer of a focus group lunch discussion that I am hosting for black junior and senior anthropology majors at the Nyumburu Cultural Center on the UMCP campus next Tuesday, May 14, from 12-2pm.
Because I have space for up to 20 people, and I have only been able to identify 6 black junior and senior anthropology majors at UMCP, I am extending this invitation to their counterparts on neighboring campuses (American, Howard, GU, Georgetown, and others). So those of you who advise such students in the Baltimore-Washington Urban area, would you please forward this flyer on to them.
This discussion with Black anthropology majors is part of the research that I have been doing exploring why Blacks (African Americans, Africans, and West Indians) are lowly represented among the faculty and graduate students of most U.S. anthropology departments, for a book manuscript that I hope to finish by the end of this year. From anthropology faculty members that I have interviewed thus far, among the reasons for this relative absence of blackness among faculty and graduate students is that at the undergraduate level, Blacks often do not select Anthropology as a major. The most frequent reason that they don't, I have been told, is that black parents and their students don't view anthropology as a field in which one can earn a satisfactory living. Thus the reason for next Tuesday's focus group discussion, and others to follow with Black anthropology majors, is to explore such issues as how they came to adopt anthropology as a major, what their experiences have been as anthropology majors, and do their post-graduation plans include continuing studying anthropology in graduate school.
On the flyer, you can see that I am also inviting black professional anthropologists residing in the area, who might be interested in joining the discussion with some comments about how they came to anthropology, and what their experiences have been in professional practice. (This is a primary reason that I have copied WAPA , and ABA members residing in the area, on this email).
And finally, please note that those who are interested in joining us, please RSVP by Saturday, May 11, 12 noon.
Thanks and Take Care.
Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland
703-620-0515 (Home)
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