African American Studies at UC Berkeley is pleased to invite you to a cocktail reception to celebrate the achievements of our department, its people, and to honor our supporters in partnership with the Office of Alumni Relations, the Social Sciences Dean’s Office, and the Black Alumni Association.
The Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley invites you to join us for the 2026 St. Clair Drake Conference. Named in honor of the pioneering anthropologist and scholar of the African Diaspora, this conference creates a supportive space for graduate students whose research engages with Black Studies methodologies, frameworks, and theories across disciplines. Undoubtedly, Black studies has remained on contested grounds since its inception. Withstanding...
Global superstar Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, like many other Puerto Ricans, has lived a life marked by crises—blackouts, hurricanes, political corruption and oppression, among others—that have exposed the ongoing impacts of colonialism in Puerto Rico. Offering a portrait of the past and future of Puerto Rican resistance through one of its loudest and proudest voices, P FKN R draws on interviews with musicians, politicians, and journalists as well as ethnographic research to set Bad Bunny and...
Join BAMPFA and the Department of African American Studies for the launch of When Home Is A Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World with author Leigh Raiford and Delphine Sims. In When Home Is a Photograph, Raiford asks how Black people use photography to make home in the world. Raiford focuses on a selection of Black American activists and artists, including Marcus Garvey, James Van Der Zee, Eslanda Goode Robeson, and Kathleen Neal Cleaver to explore the complex relationship between racialized subjects and the medium of photography. As they...
explore the Black Panther Party’s newspapers through the newspaper archives held at the Ethnic Studies Library learn about the BPP’s solidarity with Palestinian liberation understand the BPP’s theory of intercommunalism watch a documentary about anti-colonial struggle
The Erskine A. Peters Reading Room will be hosting a studyjam to begin midterm season. It will be held on February 28th from 12:30pm to 6:30pm. Join us for some studying and snacks!
Join the Department of African American Studies for a Finals Study Jam in the Erskine A. Peters Reading Room!
Monday, April 29th, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Erskine A. Peters Reading Room, 675 Social Sciences Building
Come by to study with friends, snacks and study supplies (e.g. to-do lists, scantrons, blue books) will be available. Start Reading and Review Week strong!
Join us for a reading of collected folklore stories from the students of Anthropology 160 – Forms of Folklore!
