Amilcar shabazz biography

Born in Beaumont, Texas, Shabazz graduated from Monsignor Kelly High School, followed by his earning a bachelor's degree in economics from The University of Texas at Austin, a masters from Lamar University, and a Ph. D. from the University of Houston, both in history.
Amilcar Shabazz is a professor in the department of American studies and director of the African American studies program at the University of Alabama.
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Dr. Amilcar Shabazz is the father of three sons, with one who is currently a first-grader at Crocker Farm Elementary. Last year, Amilcar, his middle son, graduated from Amherst Regional High School, after attending the school for four years. Shabazz and his partner, Demetria, were both born in Texas. He attended segregated public schools in the 1960s and 1970s, and has spent his life working to end white supremacy and racism in education. He knows firsthand the negative consequences of what happens when school systems practice racism or otherwise allow social injustice to occur.

“I am motivated to seek a seat on the Amherst School Committee from a desire to see it become more representative of the educational needs of all of our youth. I want the relationship between school committee members and committee members with our administrators and teachers to be more collegial and focused on the best possible education for our children. If elected I will work to keep class sizes under 20, make the most effective use of our budget, demand accountability for differenc

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Curriculum Vita AMILCAR SHABAZZ W. E. B. DU BOIS DEPARTMENT OF AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES 330 NEW AFRICA HOUSE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, MA 01003-6210 OFFICE PHONE: 413.545.2751 E-MAIL SHABAZZ@AFROAM.UMASS.EDU OR AMILCARSHABAZZ@GMAIL.COM HOME 29 CHAPEL ROAD AMHERST, MA 01002| PHONE: 413.461.5638 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Currently held Since 2007 University of Massachusetts Amherst: Professor, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies (Chair from 2007-2012); Faculty Advisor to the Chancellor for Diversity and Excellence (2013-2016) | Web: http://www.umass.D.-1996, History: U.S., Latin America, Theory & Narrative in Historical Studies University of Houston Dissertation: “The Opening of the Southern Mind: The Desegregation of Higher Education in Texas, 1865-1965” (nominated for the Society of American Historians’ Nevins Prize). Committee: Linda Reed, Joseph Pratt, Guadalupe San Miguel, & Jewel Prestage Certificate Teacher1991, History Texas State Board for Educator Certification, Secondary Social Studies (Grades 612), Lifetime validity, effective 3/20/1991 M.A.-19

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Amilcar Shabazz, Professor and Chair of the W.E.B. DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has been in the teaching game almost twenty years. His Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas (University of North Carolina Press, 2004), won the T. R. Fehrenbach Book Award and Essence Magazine named it a top ten recommended non-fiction book. The Forty Acres Documents, a sourcebook on reparations, is among his many other published writings. Shabazz has presented scholarly papers, taught classes, and conducted research across the U.S. and abroad, and in 2004, was named a Fulbright Senior Specialist in São Paulo, Brazil. He is currently completing Carter Wesley: Master of the Blast, a book about a Texas-born entrepreneur and civil rights activist who tried to embody W. E. B. Du Bois’s “Talented Tenth” race man idea. Also, Shabazz’s Continuous Struggle: American Democracy’s Last Great Hope is a new work in progress focused on the political lives of two women in Austin