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

Former Department of AFAM Chair, Dr. Marcus Hunter Co-Writes Bill Backed by Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. Barbara Lee

Join us in celebrating former UCLA Department of African American Studies chair, Dr. Marcus Hunter for co-writing “United States Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation”. This bill has been re-introduced by Senator Cory Booker and Rep. Barbara Lee as an effort to dismantle a government sanctioned systemic racial inequity and racism.
 
Watch the NowThis coverage of this legislation:
https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee/status/1365051548724830214 .
To read the legislation:(House)
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/19/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22hconres+19%22%5D%7D&r=1&s=4
(Senate)
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-concurrent-resolution/6?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22sconres6%22%5D%7D&s=5&r=1
Please also find more information in this feature piece from VOX:
https://www.vox.com/22308043/truth-healing-commission-systemic-racism-barbara-lee

Bunche Fellows Program Extends Application

The Bunche Fellows Program has extended their deadline to March 15th!
This program is designed to assist undergraduate students with strong interest in research that explores various aspects of Black life—from health and wellness to culture and politics. Recipients will be matched with a faculty advisor and will be required to take research courses with Dr. Walter Allen. All majors are welcome, however, priority will be given to African American Studies majors and minors.

Shana Redmond, Professor of African American Studies and Musicology elected ASA President!

Join us in celebrating one of our incredible professors, Shana Redmond as the American Studies Association President.

“Shana L. Redmond is an interdisciplinary scholar of music, race, and politics. Prior to receiving her combined Ph.D. in African American Studies and American Studies from Yale University, Redmond studied Music and African American Studies at Macalester College where she trained as a vocalist. Throughout her education and career, music has been at the center of her thinking—as subject, agent, and method—and activates her research and teaching interests in racial formation, political cultures, nationalism, labor, and decolonization. Her focus has been to understand the ways in which music is used as a strategy within the liberation politics and social movements of the African world.”

-UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Website

Read more about The ASA at: https://theasa.net/

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