News & Events Archive: 2014

December 2, 2014

Identities in the Making: Dutch Colonialisms and Postcolonial Presents http://dutch.berkeley.edu/2014/11/december-3-4-graduate-conference-in-dutch-studies-identities-in-the-making-dutch-colonialisms-and-postcolonial-presents/

November 16, 2014

Aya de Leon says the persistent reality television trend limits representation and opportunities for Black women...   

October 9, 2014

http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-free-speech-movement-and-unfinished.html

April 21, 2014

Soul Food, Politics, and Public Health A talk, demo and book signing with master chefs Bryant Terry and Njathi Wa Kabui. Bryant Terry is renowned for his activism for a healthy, just, and sustainable food system. Alice Waters says, ‘Bryant Terry knows that good food should be an everyday right and not a privilege.’ Chef Kabui is a food activist and anthropologist based in Durham, N.C. Born into a family of Kenyan coffee farmers, Kabui is dedicated to eradicating ‘food deserts.’

April 17, 2014

GERALD HORNE, Ph.D., J.D., will be discussing his newest books, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance (NYU Press) and the Origins of the United States of America and Black Revolutionary: William Patterson and the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle (Illinois Press). 

April 14, 2014

Liberating Dreams Symposium bitly.com/LiberateDreams On Saturday, May 3rd,   2014, the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley is excited to host a symposium exploring how we begin to Liberate Our Dreams.  Our guiding questions for the day are what does it mean to liberate our dreams and how do we begin?  Nikky Finney, John H. Bennett, Jr. Chair of Southern Literature & Creative Writing, English & African American Studies, University of South Carolina will bring our keynote address.  Interactive workshops designed to help symposium participants access their creative selves will also be featured.  This gathering is in an…

March 31, 2014

March 31, 2014

February 22, 2014

Professor Elijah Anderson William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology, Yale University   The black ghetto has become a major icon in American society and culture, and as such, it has also become an important source of stereotype, prejudice, and discrimination. From the days of slavery through the Civil Rights period, black people have occupied a caste-like status in American society. Today, despite the progressive changes wrought by the racial incorporation process of the 1960s and 1970s, the color line persists—albeit in a new, emergent form—in everyday life. Many blacks now reside in exclusive neighborhoods formerly off-limits to them, and…

February 4, 2014

In honor of African American History Month, The Department of African American Studies is co-sponsoring a film and panel discussion on the life of Jean-Michel Basquiat at BAM/PFA this Friday February 7th.  Please join us and please spread the word! To register: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-event-kqed-presents-an-afternoon-with-basquiat-at-bampfa-tickets-10086875115