Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies

PhD, University of Texas, Austin, 1989

Email - cabrooks@vcu.edu
Phone - 804.827.1232
Fax - 804.828.8714

Office - Starke House, Rm. 107
            915 W. Franklin St.
            Richmond, VA 23220

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Christopher Brooks is a Professor of Anthropology in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. He also holds a joint appointment in the Department of African American Studies. He holds a doctorate in Anthropology/Ethnomusicology from the University of Texas at Austin. He has numerous publications focusing on the African continental and diasporan experience. He is an editor of the forthcoming African American Almanac 10th edition (Thomas Gale 2007) in which he has written several major sections including “Africa and the African Diaspora.” He has been a contributing writer to the African and African-American Religions and Religion and War volumes in the Religion and Society Series published by Routledge (2001 and 2003 respectively). He has a chapter celebrating the centennial of W.E.B Dubois’ landmark publication, The Souls of Black Folk 100 Years Later, entitled “The Souls of Black Folk: Can a Double-Consciousness Be Heard?” (University of Missouri Press 2003), where he examined the prophetic statement DuBois made about the crucial issue of the 20th century being the race question.  

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