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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.