Events - African American Studies

Black Graduation 2020

Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PMDate: 05/18/2020 Location: Zellerbach Auditorium

Monday, May 18, 2020 7:00pm-9:00pm

White Balance: How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights

Time: 12:00 PMDate: 04/09/2020 Location: 650 Barrows Hall

Speaker: Justin Gomer, Assistant Professor of American Studies at CSULB

Langston As We Knew Him

Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PMDate: 03/04/2020 Location: 832 Barrows Hall

Speaker: Dr. MaryLouise Patterson

In Plenty and in Time of Need: Popular Culture and the Remapping of Barbadian Identity

Time: 12:00 PMDate: 02/24/2020 Location: 650 Barrows Hall

Speaker: Lia T. Bascomb

Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women

Time: 4:00 PMDate: 02/10/2020 Location: 650 Barrows Hall

Speaker: E. Patrick Johnson in Conversation with Andreana Clay

Capitalism and Freedom: Perspectives on Slavery and its Ties to Economic and Political Liberalism in Europe

Time: 12:00 PMDate: 02/05/2020 Location: 201 Moses Hall

Free Books! African American Studies Reading Room

Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PMDate: 02/01/2020 - 02/29/2020 Location: 675 Barrows Hall

In honor of Black History Month the Department of African American Studies invites you to drop by and adopt free books from our Reading Room. Open to all! Take as many books as you like! Contact Gilberto Rosa-Duran at grosa@berkeley.edu for more information.

Fall Graduate Alumni Colloquium Series

Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PMDate: 11/20/2019 Location: 650 Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley

Speaker: Professor Shaun Ossei-Owusu, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Law vs. Leisure: Nightlife and the Limits of Anti-Discrimination Law Bars, nightclubs, and similar entertainment venues have been important to American socio-political developments. Saloons were an important site of critique for a women’s-led temperance movement that helped facilitate new kinds of political organizing and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. The 1969 Stonewall Rebellion took place at a gay tavern and is considered to be one of the most important moments in the struggle for LGBTQ rights. Throughout the twentieth century, nightclubs, cabarets, and juke joints helped generate innovations that were central to black cultural politics and production, and in…

Fall Graduate Alumni Colloquium Series

Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PMDate: 11/13/2019 Location: 650 Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley

Speaker: Professor Marisa Fuentes, Rutgers University

Refuse Bodies, Disposable Lives: A history of the Human and the Transatlantic Slave Trade Abstract: This talk considers the precarious lives and lingering deaths of what European slave traders called “refuse” slaves — African captives who were refused at purchase or who survived the Middle Passage but died before they could be sold in Atlantic ports. This topic arose during Fuentes’ confrontation with an archive that mentioned or referred — in the abstract — to hundreds of thousands of people who died in the process of the slave trade, but who have been taken for granted in the historical and theoretical accounts of slavery,…

“Black Art” Graduate Seminar Welcomes Acclaimed Artists, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Alexandra Bell, for Tea and Conversation

Time: 4:15 PM - 5:30 PMDate: 09/17/2019 Location: 650 Barrows Hall