About AAASRC
AAASRC is an independent research unit at the University of California, San Diego with a rich, fifteen-year history. Several European and African institutions have established
ongoing exchange relationships with the Center, most notably the Center Les Afriques dans le monde (formerly Centre d'étude d'Afrique Noire) at the Université de Bordeaux IV, the Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa (formerly the Africa Research Centre) at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, and the national universities of Côte d'Ivoire. The AAASRC is an oasis and an international
crossroads for students, faculty and community members interested in African, African-American, and multicultural research issues and teaching at UCSD. It is
also a resource for student and faculty enrichment, recruitment and growth.
Statement of Purpose
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The goal of the AAASRC is to facilitate faculty, postgraduate, and graduate research in African and African diaspora studies in the social sciences and humanities and to foster the comparative, cross-national, and interdisciplinary dimensions of research with a core group of leading scholars. These research efforts are linked to larger local and international community concerns. The Center also oversees the undergraduate African Studies minor.
Congratulations to AAASRC member Boatema Boateng (Dept. of Communication) on the publication of her new book, The Copyright Thing
Doesn't Work Here:
Adinkra and Kente Cloth and Intellectual
Property in Ghana
