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While the United States wrestles with a college completion crisis, the Division of Institutional Research at San Francisco State University found a high correlation between Ethnic Studies curriculum and increased student retention and graduation rates. Majors and minors in the College of Ethnic Studies graduated within six years at rates up to 92%. Those who were neither majors nor minors in Ethnic Studies also boosted their graduation rates by up to 72% by taking just a few courses in Africana Studies, American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Latina/Latino Studies, or Race and Resistance Studies. Faculty in the College of Ethnic Studies demonstrated significant levels of high impact instruction in the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and senior exit surveys as compared with their colleagues across the university.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "Harlem rides the range": Expansion, modernity, and negro success -- 2. Epaulets and leaf skirts, warriors and subversives: Exoticism in the performance of the Haitian revolution -- 3. Prisms of imperial gaze: Swinging the negro mikado -- 4. Lens/body: Anthropology's methodologies and spaces of reflection in Dunham's diaspora -- 5. Ethnographic refraction: Exoticism and diasporic sisterhood in the devil's daughter -- 6. No storm in the weather: Domestic bliss and African American performance -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

This collection presents papers on various issues of social development in Africa. The contributors are historians, philosophers, economists, legal experts, sociologists, literary specialists, linguists, educationalists and scholars of culture. (DÜI-Hff)