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  • Professor Stephen Small to Retire December 2024

    October 15, 2024

    Stephen Small, Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies (AAS) and Director of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI), is retiring in December 2024 after 30 years as a faculty member at UC Berkeley.

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  • Department Welcomes Henry Washington Jr.

    August 29, 2024

    August 29, 2024 African American Studies is excited to welcome our newest addition to the faculty, Assistant Professor Henry Washington Jr.! Professor Washington was previously an Assistant Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University. We recently sat down with him to learn more about his work and ideas for his new role:  What does your research focus on? My research interests are pretty wide-ranging, but everything I write shares a curiosity about how racial and sexual difference is manufactured by systems of oppressive power to service their aims, as well as how racial and sexual minorities relate…

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  • Call for Applicants: Assistant Professor of Caribbean Studies

    July 26, 2024

    Call for Applicants: Assistant Professor of Caribbean Studies The Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor whose work demonstrates contributions to Caribbean Studies. Applications are due Monday, September 2, 2024 at 11:59 pm P.T. The Department of African American Studies is an intellectual community committed to producing, refining and advancing knowledge of Black people in the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe and Africa. A key component of our mission is to interrogate the meanings and dimensions of slavery and colonialism, and their continuing political, social and cultural implications. The Caribbean has been central to the founding of our department and doctoral program…

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  • A Tribute to Journalist, Scholar and Selfless Civil Rights Activist, Dr. Robert L. Allen – May 29, 1942-July 10, 2024

    July 25, 2024

    A Tribute to Journalist, Scholar and Selfless Civil Rights Activist, Dr. Robert L. Allen - May 29, 1942-July 10, 2024 By Daphne Muse “A North Star for how I make my way through the world” - Former student and Co-founder of Art Aids Art, Dorothy Yumi Garcia (Mills College, 1979). After decades of appeals for official pardons to exonerate the 50 Black sailors charged with the 1944 mutiny at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine on the shores of Suisan Bay in Port Chicago, Contra Costa County, Northern California, the long-overdue official exoneration of 256 Black sailors was issued by Secretary…

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  • Black Graduation 2024

    November 3, 2023

    Black Graduation 2024 May 17, 2024 9:00 am  Zellerbach Auditorium  Berkeley, CA Registration TBA

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  • Assistant Professor Recruitment-Afterlives of Slavery–African American Studies–University of California, Berkeley

    September 5, 2023

    Assistant Professor-Afterlives of Slavery–African American Studies–University of California, Berkeley The African American Studies Department at UC Berkeley seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor whose work demonstrates prior or potential contributions to the study of the Afterlives of Slavery. Expected start date: 07/01/2024. To apply visit https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03886. This recruitment closes at 11:59 pm (PT) on 9/28/2023. For questions, contact lanihunt@berkeley.edu. UC Berkeley is an AA/EEO employer. UC Berkeley is an AA/EEO employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status.

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  • Victoria Grubbs Featured on Matrix Podcast

    August 17, 2023

    Victoria Netanus Grubbs, a former postdoctoral fellow at the Black Studies Collaboratory and lecturer in African American Studies, recently appeared on the Matrix podcast to discuss her research on Rwandan popular music. Featuring clips from musical artists across the country, Grubbs discusses the project of diasporic music, national identity, and resistance to state projects.    Check out the interview here: https://matrix.berkeley.edu/research-article/listening-to-rwandan-popular-music-with-victoria-netanus-grubbs/

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  • Black Graduation 2022

    January 13, 2022

    Save the date! This year Black Grad will be held on Sunday, May 22nd at 2:00pm. More details to follow. 

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  • Small Grants Program – Spring 2022

    October 6, 2021

    Small Grants Program – Spring 2022 Due: October 29th, 2021 The Black Studies Collaboratory in the Department of African American Studies at UC Berkeley is currently accepting applications from undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty and staff for financial support for research up to $5,000. We will provide small grants for research, teaching, curriculum development, and related projects to faculty, undergraduates students, graduate students, and staff, either as individuals, teams, or as representatives of a UC Berkeley program, department, or unit. We welcome proposals from across campus that center blackness, especially teaching and research endeavors that are collaborative,…

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  • Complimentary Course Offering for Alumni

    August 23, 2021

    The History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement   ENROLL   About this course:  The objective of this course is to examine the modern Civil Rights Movement. As traditionally understood, this period began with the May 17, 1954, "Brown vs. Board of Education” Supreme Court decision and ended with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This course will expand this time frame and seek to place this movement in the context of global developments and the broad sweep of United States History. Assigned readings consist of historical and autobiographical texts. Lectures will contextualize the readings by placing…

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