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Shamara Wyllie Alhassan
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webteam2023-04-18 20:23:212024-09-26 14:16:20Black Women and da ’Rona Community, Consciousness, and Ethics of CareWalter Allen
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webteam2005-05-01 08:06:572024-09-26 14:18:13High Education in a Global Society
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webteam2002-07-02 08:15:042024-09-26 14:19:41African American EducationBryonn Bain
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webteam2022-04-22 22:33:252024-09-24 22:37:14Rebel Speak
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webteam2013-06-30 08:17:592024-09-25 08:20:48The Ugly Side of BeautifulAdam Bradley
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webteam2017-03-28 21:11:592024-09-25 21:14:51The Poetry of Pop
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webteam2011-09-13 08:24:312024-09-25 08:28:38The Anthology of RapScot Brown
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webteam2016-02-11 21:22:492024-09-25 21:27:12Discourse of African Studies
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webteam2005-03-01 21:15:262024-09-25 21:20:10Fighting for UsTananarive Due
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webteam2023-10-31 21:26:322024-09-24 22:10:12The Reformatory: A Novel
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webteam2003-12-30 21:28:012024-09-26 14:22:04Freedom in the FamilyLorrie Frasure
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webteam2015-12-11 21:31:492024-09-25 21:35:41Racial and Ethnic Politics in American SuburbsYogita Goyal
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webteam2023-12-21 21:43:142024-09-25 21:48:20The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
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webteam2019-10-29 21:35:472024-09-25 21:39:54Runaway GenresKelly Lytle Hernández
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webteam2022-05-10 21:54:022024-09-25 21:58:28Bad Mexicans
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webteam2017-04-10 21:48:442024-09-25 21:53:31City of InmatesTyrone C. Howard
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webteam2020-01-03 22:47:152024-09-25 22:53:08Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools
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webteam2016-05-27 22:39:072024-09-25 22:45:48Expanding College Access for Urban YouthDarnell Hunt
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webteam2010-04-29 22:58:402024-09-26 14:24:10Black Los Angeles
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webteam2004-12-23 22:53:432024-09-25 22:56:37Channeling BlacknessMarcus Anthony Hunter
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webteam2024-02-06 22:13:232024-09-25 00:44:19Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of A Nation
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webteam2018-01-16 00:29:242024-09-26 14:24:47Chocolate Cities The Black Map of American LifeRalina L. Joseph
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afamstaff2025-08-27 13:17:352025-08-27 13:33:14Racial Exhaustion: How to Move Through Racism in the Wake of DEI
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afamstaff2018-10-09 13:34:512025-08-27 13:41:58Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity
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afamstaff2002-11-16 13:42:142025-08-27 13:48:35Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional MultiracialTerence Keel
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afamstaff2026-02-18 15:38:132026-02-18 15:39:18The Coroner’s Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence
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webteam2018-01-09 13:33:182024-09-26 13:40:19Divine VariationsCheryl L. Keyes
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webteam2004-01-01 13:41:542024-09-26 13:45:07Rap Music and Street ConsciousnessKyle Mays
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webteam2022-11-15 22:46:062024-09-24 22:52:09An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
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webteam2022-05-24 13:46:172024-09-26 13:51:52City of DispossessionsUri McMillan
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webteam2015-11-04 13:54:182024-09-26 13:57:50Embodied AvatarsAlesia Montgomery
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webteam2020-08-25 13:58:252024-09-26 14:06:00Greening the Black Urban RegimeSafiya Umoja Noble
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webteam2018-02-20 00:45:222024-09-25 00:50:01Algorithms of OppressionSobukwe Odinga
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webteam2023-04-21 06:40:582024-09-24 22:41:36What Sorrows Labour in My Parent’s Breast?
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webteam2015-09-01 14:08:372024-09-26 14:12:23The Contested Murder of Latasha HarlinsCaroline Streeter
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webteam2012-12-14 05:46:382024-09-24 22:42:03Tragic No More: Mixed Race Women and the Nexus of Sex and CelebrityPatricia Turner
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webteam2022-09-06 05:04:472024-09-24 22:42:37Trash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century
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webteam2009-01-03 05:19:402024-09-24 22:42:51Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American QuiltersJonli Tunstall
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UCLA Arts staff member, Verlena Johnson, recognized for her art on “Blackness”
/News by afamstaffJoin us in celebrating black UCLA Arts academic advisor and student affairs officer, Verlena Johnson for being featured on both the UCLA Arts staff spotlight page and the UCLA Newsroom. Johnson, who has an M.A. in African American Studies, speaks about how black artists like Faith Ringgold have helped shape her artistry.
Read more:
https://arts.ucla.edu/single/staff-spotlight-verlena-johnson/
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/visual-artist-and-ucla-arts-staff-member-verlena-johnson-paints-love-blackness-and-divinity
AFAM Professor Scot Brown featured in USA Today!
/News by afamstaffWe are proud to announce that one of our incredible Associate Professor and Vice Chair of African American Studies, Scot Brown was featured in a USA Today article on the Green Book and Black life during Jim Crow. Dr. Brown’s research focuses on African American history, social/political movements, music and popular culture.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/travel/2021/02/19/black-history-month-inside-green-book-travel-guide/4357851001/
Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Economists, Advocates Unveil Historic Federal Job Guarantee Resolution
/News by afamstaffWe are proud to announce that our UC President’s Post Doctoral Fellow, David Stein has co-authored the new Congressional Resolution Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley has introduced. Please join us in congratulating him!
Read more: https://pressley.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-pressley-economists-advocates-unveil-historic-federal-job-guarantee