Tananarive Due receives Octavia E. Butler Award
Tananarive Due is the recipient of the illustrious Octavia E. Butler Award from the National Conference of Black Writers for her continued and distinguished body of work.
Tananarive Due is the recipient of the illustrious Octavia E. Butler Award from the National Conference of Black Writers for her continued and distinguished body of work.
Karida Brown is the recipient of the highly-coveted Fulbright Award in the Global Scholars program for her comparative international project on racial education segregation in the United States and South […]
Kelly Lytle Hernandez’s book, City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965 (University of North Carolina Press), is the recipient of the prestigious 2018 James […]
Read Banking on a ‘shithole’: US-led racial capitalism in Haiti began long before Trump by Professor Peter J Hudson
Introducing the Department’s first online course- “Af-Amer 1: Introduction to Black Studies” Take the first Department of African American Studies online course this summer! Sign up for our Summer Session […]
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As part of Black History Month, UCLA’s ‘Why History Matters’ event series bears witness to stories of black women. Read more here
Read Tananarive Due’s essay that is featured in Global Dystopias here
Read here: “GOP tax cuts would hammer California’s poor” by Marcus A Hunter
This fall, Professor Tananarive Due will be providing UCLA students with some formal schooling on the sunken place with her course titled, “The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival, and Black Horror […]