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

AfAM Professor, SA Smythe awarded with the American Academy in Rome “2021-22 Rome Prize”

We are pleased to announce that one of our faculty members, SA Smythe has been awarded with the American Academy in Rome “2021-22 Rome Prize”.

Rome Prize winners are selected annually by independent juries of distinguished artists and scholars through a national competition. The eleven disciplines supported by the Academy include: ancient studies, architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, landscape architecture, literature, medieval studies, modern Italian studies, music composition, Renaissance and early modern studies, and visual arts.

Award Announcement!

Please join us in celebrating this wonderful accomplishment!

Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health- Distinguished Quarterly Speakers Series (Spring), with Dr. Karida Brown

Join us and the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health on April 23rd (4-6pm )for their Distinguished Quarterly Speakers Series presentation by our very own Dr. Karida Brown! Brown’s presentation, “The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois: The Global Color Line and Racialized Modernity” is open for registration now!

UCLA Afam Professor Peter Hudson panelist for, “Reparations for Black Americans: The Road to Racial Equality in California and Beyond”

This event is organized by the Law, Letters, and Society Program of the University of Chicago, and the Jain Family Institute and will feature a roundtable Zoom discussion on the Destin Jenkins book, Bonds of Inequality. We are proud to have Professor Peter Hudson representing the UCLA Department of African American Studies for this discussion. This will take place April 23rd, at 8:30am PST. Register now

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