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Walter Thompson-Hernández talk – “The Role of Public Scholarship in 2018”

Haines Hall 153 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles

New York Times visual reporter, Walter Thompson-Hernández, will give a talk on “The Role of Public Scholarship in 2018.” Kelly Lytle Hernández, Professor of History and African American Studies at UCLA and Interim Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, will moderate this discussion about reaching broad audiences and doing public scholarship. Lunch will […]

Discussion with Vaughn Rasberry, author of Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination

6275 Bunche Hall 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles

Join us for a discussion with Vaughn Rasberry, author of Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination (Harvard University Press, 2016). Vaughn Rasberry is an Associate Professor of English at Stanford University. He works on African American and African Diaspora literature, 20th-century U.S. fiction, postcolonial theory, and philosophical theories of modernity. Justin Desmangles, the […]

Monique Bedasse Book Talk – “Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization”

Haines Hall 153 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles

Winner of the Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James Award from the National Council for Black Studies, Jah Kingdom uses Rastafarian repatriation to Tanzania to examine the transnational politics of pan-African ideas and praxis following the rise of independent nation-states across the Caribbean and Africa. “Jah Kingdom is the work of a talented, imaginative historian whose innovative approach […]