Professor Ford will reflect on  the current crisis of education by revisiting 1930s Black radical thinkers, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Katherine Dunham and Langston Hughes.  Drawing on Du Bois's classic Black Reconstruction, he argues that  the dark proletariat’s underground pursuit of education begins reconstructing mainstream educational institutions. Likewise, a Langston Hughes poem, "New Day," identifies […]

Williamson is an Assistant Professor of African American Literature and Cultural Studies at Michigan State University.  Her research interests include critical black cultural studies and critical race theory, black feminist theory, femicide and gendered violence, legal constructions of deviance and outlawry. She is currently working on a manuscript culled from her dissertation project entitled Scandalize […]

Tickets required. Seating is General Admission. Doors open 5:00pm. Tickets for this event are for UCLA students. Tickets are first come first serve.

Zachary Price is the Bunche Assistant Researcher on the Race & Hollywood/Hollywood Advancement Project.  His work looks at performance as a strategy for political survival and transformation.  Dr. Price has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in Theater and Dance, an M.F.A. in Playwriting from the New School University, a B.S. in […]

Critically acclaimed author, activist, and intellectual Angela Y. Davis is this year's UC Regents Professor and Professor of History of Consciousness, an interdisciplinary PhD program, and Professor of Feminist Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz.  The event is sponsored by the Gender Studies Department and will be held at 5:30pm in Royce Hall.

For more information or to register for this event please visit the 2014 Critical Race Symposium homepage.

Rosa Clemente: Doctoral student, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, UMASS-Amherst 008 VP Candidate-Green Party

A Faculty Discussion Featuring: Leah Boustan, Sarah Haley, Keith Camacho, Kelly Lytle Hernandez and Peter James Hudson Moderated by Cheryl I. Harris For articles by the panelists please click on the titles below. "Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence From the Black Migration by Leah Boustan "Who Killed Robert McCulloch's Father?" by Peter James Hudson […]