威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的非裔美国人研究计划致力于贯彻致力于最高学术水准的长辈和祖先的愿景，并实现真正的平等和机会的愿景。像WEB Du Bois，Anna Julia Cooper，John Hope Franklin，Zora Neale Hurston和James Porter一样，该系致力于将学术研究的成果带给尽可能多的受众，包括大学内外。对美国种族的复杂现实的最深刻理解需要一种跨学科的方法，该方法借鉴了历史和文学，社会科学和艺术。
The program in African American studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is dedicated to carrying on the vision of the elders and ancestors who devoted themselves to the highest standards of intellectual rigor and to the realization of a vision of true equality and opportunity. Like W.E.B. Du Bois, Anna Julia Cooper, John Hope Franklin, Zora Neale Hurston, and James Porter, the department is committed to bringing the fruits of academic research to the broadest possible audience, within and beyond the walls of the university. The deepest understanding of the complex reality of race in America requires an interdisciplinary approach, one that draws on history and literature, the social sciences, and the arts.