TODAY- Circle of Thought Lecture: Black Youth Culture, Informal Economy & Drugs in the 80s

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Bunche Center Circle of Thought Series Lecture Presents

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Donna Murch

Discussing

Black Youth Culture, Informal Economy

& Drugs in the 1980s

Thursday, February 27, 2014

                Library and Media Center – Haines Hall 135

      12 Noon – 1:00 PM

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.