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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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Building on the Black Radical Tradition: Jeneé Darden Interviews Gaye Theresa Johnson
/News by tparkRead Gaye Theresa Johnson’s interview in support of her new book, The Future of Black Radicalism.
“No one is free if black people aren’t free, if Dreamers aren’t free, if people discriminated against because of their sexuality aren’t free. Black people have always had a vision for how to achieve this kind of justice in society. It hasn’t always been recorded or written into the history books. But it has always made history. If you think about it, the most important mission/vision of social justice has come from the Black Radical Tradition. You don’t have to be black to believe in Black Radicalism. You only have to believe in freedom for everyone because that’s what the Black Radical Tradition gives us.”
– Gaye Theresa Johnson
Message from the Chair
/News by tparkWelcome to UCLA’s Department of African American Studies. Born from a dynamic scholar and activist history and synergy, our department is a premiere location for world-class training, teaching, and research on and about Black people across the African Diaspora. Our faculty holds prominent positions within major professional organizations, while also specializing across an array of disciplines, including English, Gender Studies, History, Law, Education, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, Information Studies and Musicology. Beyond their historic work on campus, our students have played crucial roles in movements for racial and social justice, established innovative research agendas and interdisciplinary college courses that center the knowledge, lives and experiences of Black people domestically and globally.
The website offers an opportunity to explore faculty and student interests, highlighting the many achievements of our brilliant community members. It also provides added insight into areas of interests, course offerings, and ways to connect with our community members to get more involved with the department. Black knowledge is Black power.
Marcus Hunter, Associate Professor and Chair
Darnell Hunt Appointed Dean of Social Sciences in the UCLA College
/News by tparkDarnell Hunt, a renowned scholar of race, media and culture, chair of sociology and longtime leader of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, has been selected as the new dean of social sciences in the UCLA College, effective July 1. Professor Hunt will succeed Interim Dean Laura Gómez, who has led the division since July 2016. She will be returning to her teaching and research duties in the UCLA School of Law.
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