Launched in fall 2025, the Black Critical Theory Initiative advances sustained inquiry into the enduring problem of antiblackness in the modern world. In particular, it offers graduate students and the broader community opportunities to engage the critical-theoretical approaches through which black being and black suffering are being reconceptualized within contemporary black studies. Hosted by the Department of African American Studies and African Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley—one of the foremost institutional bases for black study today—the initiative...
UC Berkeley’s African American Studies Department has launched a three-year initiative on Black critical theory to advance contemporary academic inquiry in Black studies. Read the full story on the College of Letters and Sciences website.
