Amilcar shabazz biography of william

Dr. Amilcar Shabazz is a professor in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and he teaches in the area of historical studies with an emphasis on the political economy of social and cultural movements, education, and public history.

In 2013, Shabazz was appointed Faculty Advisor for Diversity Campus in the Office of the Chancellor of the UMass Amherst campus.

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Before that he served for five years as the chair of the Du Bois Department. He writes that he did not choose to become a professor and a historian; the vocation chose him. “When I was a skinny boy in the Pear Orchard of Beaumont, Texas, my homeys nicknamed me Professor Peabody.

Remember the bespectacled beagle who appeared in segments called Peabody’s Improbable History on the 1960stelevisionanimated series The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show ? He had the WABAC (pronounced “wayback”) time machine which he and his boy Sherman would use to travel back