Images in Blackness is a screening and discussion series that features film and scholarly work that explores how the entertainment industry approaches race. Participants examine the intersection between race, gender, and sexuality and its role in determining acceptance, critical consideration, and commercial success.Black Forum Haines Hall 153
Dr. Tyrone C. Howard is a professor of education in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies' Urban Schooling Division, UCLA, and bestselling author of Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools and Black Male(d): Peril and Promise in the Education of African American Males. Dr. Jonli Tunstall is director of the UCLA VIP Scholars Program. For additional event […]
Don’t miss out on this special lecture – “From South Africa to Donald Trump’s America: A Comparative Perspective” – by Xolela Mangcu, Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town,. Speaker bio: Mangcu was the 2014 Oppenheimer Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He has also […]
Images in Blackness is a screening and discussion series that examines the intersection between race, gender, and sexuality and its role in determining acceptance, critical consideration, and commercial success. Jack Willis is a UCLA alumnus who has written and filmed many award winning social and cultural documentaries. He is based in New York and he […]
Nana Dijo is a cartography of the Black experience through a collection of narratives in first person. Nana Dijo is an urgent historical registry filmed in Mexico, Honduras, Uruguay, Argentina and the United States, which opens a crucial platform of analysis about race relations/politics by transgressing beyond the parameters of safe discourses" imposed by culturalist […]
The Revival: Women and the WordA Film by Sekiya Dorsett The event is on Thursday, February 9, 2017, from 6:30 pm—8:00 pm at the Black Forum (Haines Hall 153).
Blaxploitalian: 100 Years of Blackness in Italian CinemaA Film by Fred Kuwornu Black Forum (Haines Hall 153)
Dr. Darnell Hunt, Bunche Center Director and lead author of the report, will discuss the latest findings with co-authors Dr. Ana-Christina Ramon, Bunche Center Assistant Director, Dr. Vanessa Diaz, Visting Scholar, and Michael Tran & Amberia Sargent, graduate student researchers. The annual report provides a comprehensive analysis of diversity (or the lack thereof) in the […]
John Huggins & Bunchy Carter Commemoration 2017. On January 17th, 1968, two Black men were murdered in Campbell Hall over a discussion of the Departmentalization of the African American Studies department at UCLA. John & Bunchy were products of the High Potential Program, a retention project that recruited and directly enrolled Black and Brown students […]
Shena is a third year Ph.D. student in the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies. Her research and scholarship center on the ways in which education policies and practices are racialized and gendered. She focuses primarily on the academic experiences of urban Girls of Color from low-income backgrounds, particularly with respect to their college-going […]
