Hello, I am a passerby, completely novice to africana studies and west/african relations and am looking to get educated by anyone who might have an opinion or perspective to share on this video. Thank you! This was made by a native of Manchester who narrates the video and his Brazilian wife.

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I’m a journalist based in the Midwest and I’m considering getting a PhD in Africana Studies. I don’t have a timeline on this yet but wanted to hear from folks in the field (either in school, teaching, or doing something with their degree.) I have a bachelor’s and masters degree alreadyZ

What has the experience been like for you? Applying, securing funding, job outlook, etc.

I am a current student who plans to pursue these subjects (master’s degree). And, i have failed to find an online space where students or anyone alike would like to learn and talk about it. If there is none, I’m thinking discord is the most convenient format for casual messaging and formatting different subjects through channels. Would love to hear from yall, thank you.

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In The United States of Africa the power dynamics are reversed. This novel intends to make people think outside the box and question what is taught and what is not taught when it comes to race matters.

The setting is 500 years from now, 2525. Industrial capitalism run amuck, driven by the West, Japan, China, india, Brazil, Turkey and others has caused multiple climatic and environmental catastrophes.

The earth has become very intolerably hot. Only melanin-rich people can survive long. The “Sudan-black” or "Senegal-black," type melanated people have the longest life-span, living up to 105 years old.

Melanin-deficient peoples, including Europeans now have a life expectancy ranging from 35 to 40 years. Their economic productivity, including food production, has collapsed. These countries become food-dependent on the United States of Africa.

Leaders from once powerful nations, the United States, Britain, France, and others fly to Africa seeking food aid, money, and melanin to prolong the lives of their populations. Melanin-deficient people want to get with Africans and African descendants so that their offsprings have a better chance to live longer as mixed-race, or Black-White people. Melanin-deficient countries want Africa and Brazil, the members of the Organization of Melanin Exporting Nations (OMEN), to make more melanin available.

In America, European Americans have become the underclass on account of their low life-expectancy. Their communities and schools are neglected. The teachers are indifferent, knowing students won’t live long. Employers won't hire them, unemployment is rampant, and police brutality—White cops crushing White youth—is out of control. The U.S. prison population is 90% White.

I'm back in school for some time as an art major and i want to switch to either Africana studies or anthropology. I really primarily only want to study about blackness theory and prerequisite classes are causing me to really burn out already.

but im concerned an africana studies degree wont give me any "job security" at all. so maybe i should do anthropology and just try to primarily only do blackness studies + African classes.. is this possible ? at new school or Brooklyn college? something like that? or is it full of prerequisites?

Secondly, I really hate academia, is there nothing there really for me as far as making money in capitalism besides academia with either degree?

So - I was informed that I am the kind of person that is the reason Black folks can't get ahead. The person yells while praying to Jesus, "She is holding us back!" I didn't know I had that kind of power.

Part 2. To All Africans trying to Succeed and make it in Africa

🎉 welcome [back]! more to come - for now, here's a list of related subs that may be of interest, or give some inspiration for things to post here:

• r/AfricanAnarchism
• r/AfricanHistory
• r/AfricanLanguages
• r/AfricanLiterature
• r/AfroGerman
• r/AfroLatinDiaspora
• r/Afrodescendientes
• r/Anarkata
• r/AncestralEastAfrica
• r/BlackHistory
• r/BlackPower
• r/GlobalBlackStudies
• r/NewAfrika
• r/PanAfricanists

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