Bowens, Johnny W | Africana Studies

jbowens@arizona.edu

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(520)-621-3755

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Learning Services Building

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Bowens, Johnny W

Senior Lecturer

Dr. Johnny Bowens is a Senior Lecturer in the Africana Studies Department. His educational background:

B.A. degree in Sociology from Dillard University, New Orleans, Louisiana in 1968
M. Ed. Degree in Educational Administration from the University of Arizona , Tucson, Arizona in 1973
Ph.D degree in Community Sociology from Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio in 1978

Dr. Bowens’ interests is in community organizations. He has been involved in numerous civic and community organizations where he has received numerous special awards.

Currently Teaching

AFAS 222 – African American Studies: A History of Ideas

This course is concerned with the history of oppression of African and other Indigenous peoples in the world and examines ideas by radical philosophers and scholars from the African Diaspora directed toward liberation from oppression.

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AFAS 200 – Introduction to Africana Studies

Course provides a comprehensive understanding of the African American experience as grounded in the humanities. A broad investigation of Africana history and culture and its subsequent evolution in the United States.

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AFAS 255 – African American Politics

This course is designed to illumine the political economy of the African American community in the United States, with special attention to issues of race, politics, class and gender. Major themes in the course will focus on the struggles of African American people for justice from the period of reconstruction through the civil rights and post-civil rights eras. The question of Black political organizing and institution building both within and outside the dominant structures of the U.S. political economy will be discussed throughout the course.

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AFAS 425 – Environmental Justice/Environmental Racism

This course will explore how racial, economic and cultural background affect peoples access to a clean and safe environment. Through lectures, field trips, literature review, guest lecturers, and videos we will examine how people's environmental rights are being threatened locally, nationally and globally and the mechanisms being used to secure these rights.

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