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November 13, 2024

Celebrating the Life of Robert Allen October 2, 2024 By Lia Bascomb Robert Lee Allen was lovely to me. He was certainly the calmest revolutionary I ever met. My first association with The Black Scholar was publishing in it, an experience wholly started by Dr. Allen. After a traumatic, but ultimately successful QE experience, it was Robert that helped me find my confidence again. JFinley and I were his GSIs for 5B, and he asked us each to do a guest lecture based on our own work. Then he asked me to review one of his articles. Then he asked…

November 12, 2024

Celebrating the Life of Robert Allen October 2, 2024 Remarks by Janet Carter, ex wife and dear friend  I first met Robert when he was on the Board of the Oakland Men’s Project, a group in Oakland working with men to educate young men and boys about violence against women.  I couldn't believe my eyes, or my heart. Here was this gorgeous, dimpled, well-read, smart, accomplished, empathetic, introspective man with acute intuitive intellect, who was a social justice warrior with a sense of humor and adventure, and one of only a few men in the country dedicating himself to ending violence…

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…

October 16, 2023

Black Lives at Cal  Self-Guided Black History Tour of UC Berkeley Daniella Lake & Gia White

October 18, 2021

Download PDF here   THE BLACK FILM AMBASSADOR: THE ECSTATIC WORLD OF ALBERT JOHNSON    Josslyn Luckett    In 1958,  when Ernest Callenbach was seeking “co-conspirators” to create a “serious American film magazine,” Pauline Kael directed him to Albert Johnson. Together, the two of them and Colin Young, then a UCLA professor, dreamed up and brought into being the journal before you now.1 Knowing that a Black film critic and professor, Pacific Film Archive (PFA) collaborator, and long-time San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF) programmer was part of this journal’s origin story is enough to make me—a recently arrived Black…

September 20, 2021

Job link here   Job #JPF03145 African Am Studies / College of Letters & Science - Social Sciences / UC Berkeley POSITION OVERVIEW Position titles: Assistant Professor  Associate Professor, Full Professor  Anticipated start: July 1, 2022 APPLICATION WINDOW Open September 14th, 2021 through Monday, Oct 18, 2021 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) POSITION DESCRIPTION The University of California, Berkeley seeks applicants for two positions, one tenure-track (Assistant Professor) to join the Department of African American Studies and one tenured (Associate or Full Professor) to join the School of Social Welfare. Both hires are part of a multi-year hiring initiative in “Anti-Black Racism…

July 13, 2021

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June 10, 2021

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April 16, 2021

March 10, 2021

View this email in your browser Recognizing the Legacies of Black Women at Cal Members of the 1921 Rho Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, University of California, Berkeley (left to right): Virginia Stephens, Oreatheal Richardson, Myrtle Price (in back), Ida Jackson (sorority president), Talma Brooks, and Ruby Jefferson. (Photo courtesy of Stephens Family papers, African American Museum and Library at Oakland) BSFO acknowledges and celebrates the phenomenal legacy of Black womxn at Cal who are, or have been, staff, faculty, students, contributors, community members, etc. on campus since 1909. We extend our appreciation for you, and THANK YOU for your tremendous impact.…