Blackness and Borderscapes: Queering the Black Mediterranean

Blackness and Borderscapes: Queering the Black Mediterranean SA Smythe President’s Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies UC Irvine   MONDAY, APRIL 2 12:00PM Black Forum Room | Haines Hall 153   In this presentation, Dr. SA Smythe addresses recent challenges in the regulation of legal residency and pathways to citizenship in Italy. Smythe […]

Beauty and the Black: Aesthetics Politics and Black Reproduction in Brazil

Beauty and the Black: Aesthetics Politics and Black Reproduction in Brazil Ugo Edu Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Anthropology UC Davis   WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4 12:00PM Black Forum Room, Haines Hall 153 lunch will be provided Based on ethnographic research in Salvador, Bahia, this talk explores the role of aesthetics in the construction and perception […]

New Directions in Black Queer Studies

The UC Consortium for Black Studies presents New Directions in Black Queer Studies A Conversation with Cathy Cohen,  David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science,  The University of Chicago and Roderick Ferguson, Professor of African American and Gender and Women’s Studies, The University of Illinois at Chicago   Moderated by Uri McMillan, Associate Professor of English, UCLA […]

Reconsidering Education and Imprisonment: A Conversation on Prisons, Race, and Education

The UCLA Departments of African American Studies & Education Present: DISPOSSESSION & ENCLOSURE: RECONSIDERING EDUCATION AND IMPRISONMENT a conversation with Sabina Vaught & Damien Sojoyner Sabina Vaught, associate professor and chair of the Tufts University Department of Education & Damien Sojoyner, assistant professor of anthropology at UC Irvine, will discuss their respective books Compulsory: Education […]

Beyond Coloniality: Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition

"Beyond Coloniality: Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition" Lecture by Aaron Kamugisha Aaron Kamugisha is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. He is the editor of Caribbean Political Thought: The Colonial State to Caribbean Internationalisms (2013), Caribbean Political Thought: Theories of the Post-Colonial State (2013), (with Yanique Hume) Caribbean Cultural Thought: […]

Black, Brown, and Powerful: Freedom Dreams in Unequal Cities

In Los Angeles and elsewhere, black and brown communities face multiple forms of banishment and exploitation. At this evening of inspiring talks and performances, we shine a light on organizing frameworks and resistance strategies that challenge exclusion and refuse subordination. We invite scholars, residents, activists, community-based and nonprofit organizations, foundations, policymakers and public officials, and […]

“The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam” by Ula Taylor

The UC Consortium for Black Studies presents THE PROMISE OF PATRIARCHY: WOMEN AND THE NATION OF ISLAM  Ula Taylor Chair & Professor, African American Studies at UC Berkeley Monday, April 30th, 2018 | 4:00pm-6:00pm UCLA Bunche Hall 6275 RSVP HERE  Professor Ula Taylor introduces her recently published book,The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam. […]

Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life

UCLA's Department of African American Studies, Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, Department of Urban Planning, and Department of Sociology present Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life with authors Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson in conversation with Scot Brown, Alma Burrell, Lynnée Denise, Frankie “Kash” Waddy Wednesday, May 9th, 2018 6:00pm-9:00pm California […]

‘Race and the Totalitarian Century’ with Vaughn Rasberry

Race and the Totalitarian Century  A discussion with author Vaughn Rasberry  moderated by Justin Desmangles  Winner of the Ralph J. Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association, and the American Book Award, from the Before Columbus Foundation, Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination,  shows how a group of black writers challenged […]

Department of African American Studies Commencement Celebration

Congratulations! The faculty and staff of the Department of African American Studies are looking forward to sharing this wonderful occasion with you. Date: Saturday, June 16, 2018 Time: 11:30 A.M. Location: Fowler Museum, Lenart Auditorium Ticket Information: Students may request up to 4 complimentary tickets for the Department of African American Studies Ceremony. An additional four tickets per student […]