Education Resources
Mercer County Library System
Visit your local library and discover more about the diverse history, culture, languages and arts of the African Diaspora. The Mercer County Library System is comprised of nine public libraries.
http://webserver.mcl.org
The College of New Jersey - Department of African American Studies
The African-American Studies department at The College of New Jersey is devoted to promoting scholarship and dialogue on issues related to Africa and its Diaspora. Course offerings explore the full spectrum of promise and tragedy throughout Africa and its Diaspora. It questions matters of race and ethnicity that reside at the heart of America's national identity and the nation's most persistent problems. African-American Studies provides a balanced examination of the internal dynamics of power relations in the United States and its relationship with the rest of the world. - For additional information, please contact:
African-American Studies Department
The College of New Jersey
Social Science Building 304
P.O. Box 7718
2000 Pennington Rd.
Ewing, NJ 08628
609.771.2138
afamstud@tcnj.edu
http://www.tcnj.edu/~afamstud/
Princeton University - Center for African American Studies
Launched in the fall of 2006, the Center for African American Studies (CAAS) expands upon the initiatives begun by the Program in African American Studies at Princeton University. Since its founding in 1969, the program has offered an interdisciplinary certificate that has allowed students to draw on the insights and techniques of various disciplines in an effort to understand the experiences, history and culture of African-descended people. The new center builds upon that earlier vision and extend its reach broadly across the campus and throughout the curriculum. Understanding that African American studies is interdisciplinary and multifaceted, and that questions and concerns about race are at the center of a liberal arts education, the center offers a variety of courses, lectures and research opportunities to more fully enrich the intellectual lives of students, faculty and members of the larger community. The center also offers doctoral students from across the University opportunities to work with faculty in African American studies. The prominent faculty of the center includes the highly regarded Dr. Cornel West.
Center for African American Studies
Princeton University
One Palmer Square, Suite 315
Princeton, NJ 08544
http://www.princeton.edu/africanamericanstudies/center/
Thomas Edison State College - Studies in African Culture & History
The Thomas Edison College offers the following courses in African studies:
- African Encounters
This course examines several autobiographies written by authors from South Africa, Zimbabwe and Nigeria. Students study how these African and South African writers use autobiography to explore and define their individual life experiences as well as the collective life experiences of a community. Students are expected to use their critical-thinking and analytical skills as they examine the components of autobiography, the internal and external encounters of each author, and the political and social dimensions of the authors' experiences.
- African History and Culture
This course examines the history and evolution of Africa's geography, people and societies, including the impact of external influences. It also identifies and explores geographic and climactic processes and the ecological context in which they occurred.
For additional information, please contact:
Thomas Edison State College
101 W. State Street
Trenton, NJ 08608-1176
(888) 442-8372
http://www.tesc.edu
Mercer County Community College - African American Art
This course is a comprehensive survey of the aesthetic and historical evaluation of African-
American Art, artists and culture. Color slides will be analyzed and discussed. Lectures and
museum trips are included.
Mercer County Community College
West Windsor Campus
1200 Old Trenton Road
West Windsor, NJ 08550
(609) 586-4800
http://www.mccc.edu
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Community Organizations
Concerned Black Men of Hightstown, NJ
220 Hickory Corner Road
East Windsor, NJ 08520
Tel: 609 227-5973
Email: info@cbmnational.org
Website: www.cbmnational.org
Concerned Black Men of Trenton, NJ
Contact CBM National Office
Tel: (888) 395-7816
Email: info@cbmnational.org
Website: www.cbmnational.org
Metropolitan Trenton African American Chamber of Commerce
200 East State Street (2nd Floor)
Trenton, NJ 08608
Zachary Chester
NJ NAACP - Trenton --mercer
PO Box 1355
Trenton, NJ 08608
Joan M. Burke, President
Association of Black Women Lawyers of NJ
P.O. Box 22524
Trenton, NJ 08607
