From Zamunda to Wakanda: Celebrating 30 Years of Culturally Diverse Design and Imagination in Film featuring an evening with costume designers Deborah Nadoolman Landis Coming to America (1988) and Ruth E. Carter Black Panther (2018) Imagination has been key to the Black Freedom Struggle and Black cultural expression. No two places best reflect this point more than […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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" 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: […]

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 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. […]