UCLA Department of African American Studies

African-American Studies Open House
2014-10-01 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

"Feminism and Abolition: Extending the Dialogue" by Angela Y. Davis
2014-05-08 17:30 - 19:00
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.

“Transcultural Performance Disciplines: Embodying AfroAsia Through Martial Arts in Theater, Film and Everyday Practice” by Zachary Price
2014-05-06 12:00 - 13:00
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 performance studies from Northwestern University.

"Free Angela and All Political Prisoners!" Film Screening
2014-04-30 17:30 - 19:45
Tickets required. Seating is General Admission.
Doors open 5:00pm.
Tickets for this event are for UCLA students.
Tickets are first come first serve.

"In the Life: Black Women and Serial Murder" by Terrion Williamson
2014-04-24 12:00 - 13:00
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 My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life.

"Science Fictions: The Eugenics Redlining of Racial and Sexual Outsiders in US Immigration Policy, its History, and Our Resistance" by Nancy Ordover
2014-04-22 16:30 - 18:00

"The New Day: Notes on (Mis)Education and the Dark Proletariat" by James Ford III
2014-04-17 12:00 - 13:00
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 the the title with the “flesh that triumphs (as well as the spirit),” probing the ethical relation between pedagogy, ecstatic poetry, and the political in its collective, contrarian stance towards America’s segregationist educational agenda.

Peniel Joseph discusses his new book, "Stokely: A Life"
2014-03-12 16:00 - 17:30
Peniel E. Joseph is Professor of History at Tufts University and founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy. He is the the author of the award-winning Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America and Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama as well as editor of The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era and Neighborhood Rebels: Black Power at the Local Level.

David Sheen reports on the struggle of African Immigrants in Israel
2014-03-04 18:30 - 20:30

"Black Youth Culture, Informal Economy & Drugs in the 1980s" by Donna Murch
2014-02-27 12:00 - 13:00
Donna Murch, a Bunche Center Visiting Scholar, is associate professor of history at Rutgers University and co-director of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis and the Black Atlantic. Her teaching and research specializations are postwar U.S. history, modern African American history, and twentieth-century urban studies. Her talk will center around the research for her upcoming book on black youth culture, informal economy and drugs in the 1980s. The event is free and open to the public.
All-day parking ($12) and short-term parking (payable at pay stations) are available in Lots 2, 3 or 4 (enter the campus at Hilgard and Westholme avenues). UCLA is smoke-free and tobacco-free. The use of cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco and all other tobacco products, as well as electronic cigarettes, will be prohibited on UCLA’s campus and at sites owned or fully leased by the university. For more information, please visit: https://ccle.ucla.edu/course/view/UCLA_tobacco_free_task_force.

Akinyele Umoja discusses his book, "We Will Shoot Back"
2014-02-25 08:00 - 17:00
We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement (NYU Press, 2013)
Akinyele Umoja is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African-American Studies, Georgia State University. A long-time activist and historian of the black freedom movement, Dr. Umoja holds a PhD from Emory University.

Groundings: Black Solidarity with Palestine
2014-02-19 19:00 - 21:00
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
