UCLA Department of African American Studies

Groundings: Black Solidarity with Palestine
2014-02-19 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Conversation with writer dream hampton and hip hop artist Jasiri X about their recent trip to Palestine, facilitated by Sohail Dalautzai, Professor at UCI and author of Black Star, Crescent Moon, and Robin D. G. Kelley, interim chair of African American Studies

Shana Redmond discusses her book, "Anthem"
2014-02-19 12:00 - 13:00
Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora (NYU Press, 2013)

Shana Redmond is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She holds a PhD from Yale University and has published widely on black music and politics.

*co-sponsored with the Bunche Center.

"The Art of Being Difficult: The Turn to Abstraction in African-American Poetry & Painting During the 1940s and '50s" by Jackie Goldsby
2014-02-13 16:00 - 18:00

"American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs" Free Screening
2014-02-12 20:00 - 22:00
Screening will be followed by conversation with filmmaker Grace Lee.
Tickets are first-come, first-served.

Jonathan Scott Holloway discusses his book, "Jim Crow Wisdom"
2014-01-30 12:00 - 13:00
Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black American Since 1940 (UNC Press, 2013)
Jonathan Holloway, Yale University Professor of History, American Studies and African American Studies is also the author of Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941 (2002). He is a specialist in post-emancipation United States history with a focus on cultural and intellectual history.
*co-sponsored with the Bunche Center

Afro-American Studies BA Welcome Event
2013-10-09 15:00 - 17:00
