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Teaching African American Studies in the US and the UK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2018

KATE DOSSETT ,
ANNETTE K. JOSEPH-GABRIEL ,
HASAN KWAME JEFFRIES ,
NICOLE KING ,
LYDIA PLATH ,
ALAN RICE  and
KAREN SALT
KATE DOSSETT
Affiliation:
Kate Dossett, Department of History, University of Leeds. Email: k.m.dossett@leeds.ac.uk.
ANNETTE K. JOSEPH-GABRIEL
Affiliation:
Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan. Email: ajosephg@umich.edu.
HASAN KWAME JEFFRIES
Affiliation:
Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Department of History, Ohio State University. Email: Jeffries.57@osu.edu.
NICOLE KING
Affiliation:
Nicole King, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London. Email: N.King@gold.ac.uk.
LYDIA PLATH
Affiliation:
Lydia Plath, Department of History, University of Warwick. Email: L.J.Plath@warwick.ac.uk.
ALAN RICE
Affiliation:
Alan Rice, Institute for Black Atlantic Research, School of Humanities and the Social Sciences, University of Central Lancashire. Email: arice@uclan.ac.uk.
KAREN SALT
Affiliation:
Karen Salt, Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham. Email: Karen.salt@nottingham.ac.uk.
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Journal of American Studies , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , May 2018 , pp. 528 - 554
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