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

Professor Kelly Lytle Hernandez and the Million Dollar Hoods Project Win Mellon Grant

It is with great exuberance that we announce that the Million Dollar Hoods Project led by one of our esteemed faculty members Professor Kelly Lyttle Hernandez and the UCLA Ethnic Studies Centers have become the recipients of a $3.65M Mellon grant! Please join us in celebrating their outstanding work!

Read More at: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/mellon-foundation-ucla-archive-policing-incarceration

Bunch Fellows Program: Information Sessions

Join us February 2nd at 4:00pm and February 17th at 6:00pm for the Bunche Fellows Program Information Sessions. The Bunche Fellows Program (BFP) funds undergraduate and graduate students as well as postdoctoral scholars to study the conditions of Black life. This event is a great opportunity to learn more about all that the Bunche Fellows Program has to offer!

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Festivals in the City of Angels: Kwanzaa in Leimert Park Village

The UCLA’s Department of African American Studies, in partnership with We Love Leimert and the Fowler Museum hosted “Festivals in the City of Angels: Kwanzaa in Leimert Park Village” on Thursday, December 17th, 2020.

Check out the program recording here:

Kwanzaa is a relatively new holiday, created in 1966, following the Watts Rebellion, to bring the Black community together. Today, it is celebrated annually around the world, most notably on the West Coast in Leimert Park Village, the vibrant heart of Black culture in Los Angeles. The Fowler has partnered with We Love Leimert for a program honoring Kwanzaa and its seven principles and symbols rooted in the sacred teachings of Asante and Zulu harvest celebrations. We’ll hear from cultural bearers and figures from the Leimert Park Village community who are organizing for Black liberation and self-determination. The program will culminate with a dance class led by Kamilah Marsh and Keti Ciofassa, giving participants an opportunity to embody the principles of Kwanzaa.

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