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

Origins of Hip-Hop and Rap Explored In Smithsonian ‘Anthology’

In advance of its approaching fifth anniversary in September, the National Museum of African American History and Culture — in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings — has slated Aug. 20 as the release date for the Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap.

Rappers MC Lyte and Public Enemy’s Chuck D, writer-scholars Adam Bradley and Cheryl Keyes, early Def Jam senior executives Bill Adler and Bill Stephney, artist-writer-director Questlove and producer-educator 9th Wonder were among the key figures comprising an executive committee that began discussing the anthology’s premise in 2014. Over the ensuing seven years, an additional panel of advisors representing all facets of hip-hop culture was also assembled.

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Black Bruin Resource Center’s Mural Design Contest

The Black Bruin Resource Center is excited to announce their Mural Design Contest which is open to students, staff, faculty, and alumni.
The theme of the mural design contest is Black History at UCLA. 
Submissions must be at minimum 300 dpi high resolution.

Contest Timeline:

Submissions Begin – JUNE 18th at 12:01am

Submission Closed – JULY 26th at 5pm

Finalist Announced – JULY 30th

Public Voting Open – JULY 31st

Public Voting Closes – AUGUST 9TH

Winner Announced – AUGUST 16TH 

Contest Rules: https://tinyurl.com/BBRCMuralRules

Submission link: https://sa.ucla.edu/Forms/p/BBRCMuralComp

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