Publications

Shamara Wyllie Alhassan

Black Women and da ’Rona Community, Consciousness, and Ethics of Care By Julia S. Jordan-Zachery and Shamara Wyllie Alhassan

Walter Allen

Higher Education in a Global Society: Achieving Diversity, Equity and Excellence (Advances in Education in Diverse Communities: Research, Policy and Praxis, 5) By Walter R. Allen, Marguerite Bonous-Hammarth, and Robert T. Teranishi
African American Education: Race, Community, Inequality and Achievement - A Tribute to Edgar G. Epps (Advances in Education in Diverse Communities: Research, Policy and Praxis, 2) By Walter R. Allen, Margaret Beale Spencer, and Carla O'Connor

Bryonn Bain

Rebel Speak by Bryonn Bain

Rebel Speak

The Ugly Side of Beautiful: Rethinking Race and Prison in America By Bryonn Bain

Adam Bradley

The Poetry of Pop By Adam Bradley
The Anthology of Rap By Adam Bradley

Scot Brown

Discourse on Africana Studies: James Turner and Paradigms of Knowledge By Scot Brown
Fighting for Us By Scot Brown

Tananarive Due

The Reformatory: A Novel
Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights By Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due

Lorrie Frasure

Racial and Ethnic Politics in American Suburbs By Lorrie Frasure

Yogita Goyal

The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature By Yogita Goyal
Look Inside Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery By Yogita Goyal

Runaway Genres

Kelly Lytle Hernández

Bad Mexicans By Kelly Lytle Hernández
City of Inmates By Kelly Lytle Hernández

Tyrone C. Howard

Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap in America's Classrooms By Tyrone C. Howard
Expanding College Access for Urban Youth By Tyrone C. Howard, Jonli Tunstall, Terry K. Flennaugh

Darnell Hunt

Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities By Darnell Hunt and Ana-Christina Ramon
Channeling Blackness: Studies on Television and Race in America By Darnell Hunt

Marcus Anthony Hunter

Chocolate Cities by Marcus Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson

Ralina L. Joseph

Terence Keel

Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Radical Science By Terence Keel

Cheryl L. Keyes

Rap Music and Street Consciousness By Cheryl L. Keyes

Kyle Mays

An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States By Kyle Mays

Uri McMillan

Embodied Avatars Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance By Uri McMillan

Alesia Montgomery

Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit By Alesia Montgomery

Safiya Umoja Noble

ALGORITHMS OF OPPRESSION By Safiya Umoja Noble

Sobukwe Odinga

UCHRI Webinar about Student Loan Debt & Public Service Loan Forgiveness!

University of California Humanities Research Institute is hosting a webinar about Student Loan Debt & changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program! The webinar takes place on Tuesday, Oct. 26th.

Zoom Registration Link

Have student loan debt? Employed in the public sector? Join them for a hands-on webinar to learn about the recent overhaul to Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLFP) requirements. Hear from UC student loan experts about the program, recent changes, and how they might simplify your ability to qualify for the PSLFP. Speakers will field questions from attendees as well as address some of the common barriers to the program.

Click here for more information.

Volunteer Opportunity with Alternative Breaks!

Love volunteering? Want to become an active participant in social justice issues? APPLY TO ALTERNATIVE BREAKS!

             

Alternative Breaks is a student-run program under UCLA’s Community Service Commission (CSC) that sends small groups of undergraduates to communities within the United States to engage in meaningful service during spring breaks.

If you join, you are sure to have the most meaningful break you could ever have and more. Past participants have found long-lasting friendship, career interests and leadership opportunities through AB, and we hope you get to have the same experience!

*Fill out their interest form as well as their application to be updated on upcoming important events and meetings!*

UFAHAMU is Calling for Student Editors!

UFAHAMU: A Journal of African Studies is an interdisciplinary journal of African Studies & they are looking for students to join their editorial board! All majors are welcome and no experience is required (Grad Students preferred).

Available Positions Include: 

  • Junior Book Review Editor
  • Junior Arts Editor
  • Junior Translation Editor
  • Editor

To apply and find out more about each role click here.

Brenda Steveson

What Sorrows Labour in My Parent's Breast? By Brenda E. Stevenson
The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots By Brenda Stevenson

Caroline Streeter

Tragic No More By Caroline A. Streeter

Patricia Turner

Trash Talk- Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century By Patricia A. Turner
Crafted Lives By Patricia A. Turner

Jonli Tunstall

Expanding College Access for Urban Youth By Tyrone C. Howard, Jonli Tunstall, Terry K. Flennaugh