Join us for an informational session about the 2015-16 IAC Graduate and Predoctoral Fellowship in Ethnic Studies.Learn more about the fellowship, the application process, and get tips!1:00 - 2:00 PM -- 3232 Campbell Hall

Chris Lebron, Assistant ProfessorPhilosophy & African American Studies, Yale UniversityWill be work shopping his paper, The Sense and Sensibility of Equality."12:00 - 1:30PM - - 4357 Bunche Hall"

Images in Blackness - Oral History, Documentary, & Scripted Works Based on Real Life welcomes a filmmaker screening during Black History Month at the Pan African Film Festival and will examine filmmakers whose work challenges stereotypical images of African Americans in mass media and puts them in conversation with scholars exploring the impact diverse artists […]

Marcus Anthony Hunter will discuss his book, Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America (Oxford University Press 2013). The book revisits the Black Seventh Ward neighborhood immortalized in W.E.B. DuBois’s The Philadelphia Negro, following its transformation from predominantly black into a largely white upper middle class and commercial neighborhood by the century’s conclusion. […]

Scot Brown will discuss his forthcoming book Dis-course on Africana Studies: James Turner and Para-digms of Knowledge (Diasporic African Press, 2014). Brown is a professor of History and African American Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles and is the author of the pioneering book, Fighting For Us, a study of cultural nationalism […]

The Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library Presents:Film and Speaker onThe Loving StoryThis documentary tells the story of an interracial couple living in Virginia in the 1950s and their landmark Supreme Court Case, Loving v. Virginia, that changed history. Following the film, Dr. Lisbeth Gant-Britton, author of Holt African American History will discuss the changing composition of […]

A Zócalo/UCLA Bunche Center Event Moderated by Matthew Belloni, Executive Editor, The Hollywood ReporterAmerica is in the midst of tremendous demographic change, but the images and stories we see about ourselves onscreen don't reflect this transformation. Anglos make up about two-thirds of the country's population, but they play leading roles in almost 90 percent of […]

I Write What I Like" THE POLITICS OF BLACK IDENTITY AND GENDERED RACIAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN MEER'S THE BLACK WOMAN WORKER.Haines Hall - - Room 135 - - 4:00PM"

National Council For Black Studies 39th Annual ConferenceThe Foundation and Future of Black Studies: Reaffirming Our Emancipatory Mission & Value March 11 - 14, 201539th NCBS Annual Conference The Westin Los Angeles AirportLos Angeles, Ca. The National Council for Black Studies (NCBS) announces its 39th annual conference. Theme: We welcome presentations for our upcoming annual […]