<p>Princeton’s Center for African American studies is taking a new approach, one that is outlined in this article.</p>
<p>[Center</a> for African American Studies wants new voice - NJ.com](<a href=“http://www.nj.com/news/times/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-18/1261982729127890.xml&coll=5]Center”>http://www.nj.com/news/times/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-18/1261982729127890.xml&coll=5)</p>
<p>"At first glance, you wouldn’t know you were in an office of the Center for African American Studies (CASS) here at Princeton University. The bookshelves of its director’s Stanhope Hall office are lined with the novels of Dostoyevsky, Proust and Chekhov, heroes of the white literary canon and not the traditional voices of black identity.</p>
<p>There is a reason for this, but it takes the subtle, cutting-edge perspective of the Center’s new Chair, Eddie Glaude Jr., to articulate it. It is part of Glaude’s plan, in fact, to elevate CASS into one of the nation’s leading resources on the issue of race. . . . (continued)</p>
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<p>For those who would like more information on African American Studies at Princeton, the main website can be found here:</p>
<p>[Princeton</a> University - African American Studies - Welcome](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/africanamericanstudies/]Princeton”>Department of African American Studies)</p>