Clemson Lecturer, Mary Barr, will discuss her new book, Friends Disappear. The book focuses on how segregation created educational inequities among the friends in the neighborhood where she grew up. Barr received her B.A. in Sociology from UCLA and her Ph.D. in Sociology and African American Studies from Yale University.Haines Hall 135 - Library and […]
The Bunche Center and the Chicano Studies Research Center will host a joint event welcoming Gaye Theresa Johnson, associate professor in African American and Chicano studies at UCLA. Johnson will discuss “The Futures of Black Radicalism.” This co-sponsored talk will be held in the CSRC Library, Haines Hall 144. A reception immediately following the Q&A […]
Shaun Ossei-Owusu is the Doheney Postdoctoral Fellow at the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and USC Libraries at the University of Southern California.He received his PhD from the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley in 2014. He also received his graduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and […]
Unsettled: Fugitive Life in the HyperghettoEric Tang is an Assistant Professor in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department and faculty member in the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. A former community organizer, Tang has published numerous essays on race and urban social movements, including award-winning writing on […]
March 31st, 2016–Thinking Gender 2016 is a two day conference on April 7th and 8th that highlights graduate student research on women, sexuality, and gender.The keynote speech titled, “Unexpected Consequences: Women and Power in Postconflict Africa,” will be Aili Tipp Gender Studies conference keynotegiven by Professor of Political Science and Gender and Women’s Studies from […]
Uri McMillan, an Assistant Professor of English at UCLA, will discuss his book, Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance. The book explores how black women artists have purposefully engage in self-objectification, thus, transforming them in to art objects. Dr. McMillan will dive deeper into the intersectionsalities of art, performance, and black female […]
The 2nd Annual MLK Remembrance Day will showcase Dr. King’s efforts to advance diversity, equity and inclusion. This year’s event will look at the issue of repeated blunt force trauma to the brain, promote concussion awareness, and the work that Black Bruin athlete alumni are engaged in to mitigate this challenge as well as their […]
A convening to discuss the theory and practice of gender-based school performs for the at-risk students of color.UCLA School of Law May 6th Room 1310 --10:00AM - 6:00PM May 7th Room 1314 -- 9:00AM - 2:00PM
A Convening to discuss the theory and practice of gender-based school reforms for at-risk students of color.UCLA School of Law May 6h 10:00 AM - 6:00PM -- Room 1310 May 7th 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM -- Room 1314
