Institute of American CulturesFall Forum & ReceptionTuesday, November 5, 20134:30 pm – 7:00 pmUCLA Faculty Center, California Room

David J. Leonard, Chair of the Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University. Leonard will discuss his book-in-progress: Presumed Innocence: The Racial Profiling of Gun Violence.Leonard is the author of Screens Fade to Black: Contemporary African American Cinema; co-editor of Criminalized and Commodified: New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary […]

For many who actively participated in the protest, looting and destruction, and for the thousands who stayed at home, but understood all too well why others had gone, Rodney King was not the symbol of injustice that was being protested; Latasha Harlins was," writes Stevenson, a UCLA professor of history and African-American studies.Bunche Hall Room […]