Elijah Anderson is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale University. His publica-tions include Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City (1999), win-ner of the Komarovsky Award from the Eastern Sociological Society; Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community (1990), winner of the […]
Kimberly Chantal Welch, a doctoral candidate in the Theater and Performance Studies Program at UCLA, will discuss, “Revisiting Nkombo: Performance, Gal-boy Prisoners, and the Politics of Black Femininity.” Her research explores the intersections of performance, homelessness, and incarceration with an emphasis on spatial structures and their relationship to constructions of race, gender and sexuality. Welch’s […]
Alex W. Rodriguez PhD Candidate in the Department of Ethnomusicology at UCLA. His current research focuses on jazz clubs around the world and the creative improved music communities that sustain them with case studies in California, Chile and Siberia. Black Forum - - 153 Haines Hall
Flash Point 2017:Twenty-Five Years After the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising Don’t miss out on panel discussions, art, films and media exhibits that examine the 1992 L.A. Uprising. This 3 day event will be on April 28-30 (Fri-Sun), 2017, at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center in Westwood and in Little Tokyo with the Los Angeles Asian […]
Flash Point 2017:Twenty-Five Years After the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising Don’t miss out on panel discussions, art, films and media exhibits that examine the 1992 L.A. Uprising. This 3 day event will be on April 28-30 (Fri-Sun), 2017, at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center in Westwood and in Little Tokyo with the Los Angeles Asian […]
Flash Point 2017:Twenty-Five Years After the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising Don’t miss out on panel discussions, art, films and media exhibits that examine the 1992 L.A. Uprising. This 3 day event will be on April 28-30 (Fri-Sun), 2017, at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center in Westwood and in Little Tokyo with the Los Angeles Asian […]
Jonathan E. Collins is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at UCLA, where he studies urban politics, democratic representation, and racial and ethnic politics. Collins has been a professor of Politics at Pomona College. Collins is a research fellow for the Loyola Mary-mount University Center for the Study of Los Angeles, as […]
Nancy Yuen, In this workshop, I share the journey of how I turned my dissertation into a general audience book. In breaking down the writing and publication process, I go over parts of the book and can field questions about the topic." Nancy Wang Yuen is the author of Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism […]
One of the world’s leading writers and scholars, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has been a force in bringing Africa to the forefront of contemporary literature and postcolonial theory through his novels, essays, plays, journalism, and social activism. His new memoir, Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening, chronicles the period in early-1960s East Africa when […]
The Black Convocation is an annual event that welcomes new and returning students to the UCLA campus and makes them aware of the different organizations, departments, and resources available to serve them. It is an evening full of Bruin pride, providing encouragement, anecdotes about the past, and a glimpse of the future from UCLA faculty, […]
