UPDATE May 15, 2013 – Aspire, a new cable television network targeting African Americans and owned by Magic Johnson, launches the talk show, Exhale. Click Here. May 14, 2013 – TV By The Numbers reports Univision ranking higher than the Big Four networks. Click Here. May 10, 2013 — Bunche Center Director Darnell Hunt talks about findings from a recent study [...]
When Too Few Minorities are Too Many May 2, 2013 – Noliwe M. Rooks writes in The Chronicle of Higher Education, about our national debate over race and affirmative action at the college level. To read more Click Here. Report Finds Increased Enrollment of Out-of-State Students at Public Universities Tied to Generating Revenue May 1, [...]
April 25, 2013 Summer Humanities Institute Participants Where are They Now? Funded through generous grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Office of the University of California, the UCLA Bunche Center for African American Studies is hosting its thirteenth Summer Humanities Institute from Sunday, June 23 to Saturday, August 17, 2013, under the [...]
The Ralph J. Bunche Library and Media Center was established in 1969 as a part of the Center for African American Studies. Its purpose was to provide specialized reference and information services to students and researchers studying African and African American history, culture and art. Before the Center was established researchers struggled to access [...]
The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, established as an organized research unit in 1969, is committed to research which enhances our understanding of the history, lifestyles, material conditions, and socio-cultural systems of African Americans and the Diaspora. The esteemed faculty and affiliated researchers include leaders in the fields of African [...]
Read our Director’s letter, “Our Success is Your Success.” Dr. Hunt thanks our Bunche Center friends for their ongoing support, reflects on the Center’s accomplishments in 2012, and previews the exciting year we are planning at the Bunche Center in 2013. Please remember the Bunche Center when you plan your Year-End Gifts and visit [...]
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The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, founded in 1969 as the Center for Afro-American Studies (CAAS), was renamed after Nobel Prize winner, scholar, activist, and UCLA alumnus Ralph J. Bunche in 2003, in commemoration of the centenary of his birth. The Bunche Center is the result of the [...]
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UPDATE May 15, 2013 – Aspire, a new cable television network targeting African Americans and owned by Magic Johnson, launches the talk show, Exhale. Click Here. May 14, 2013 – TV By The Numbers reports Univision ranking higher than the Big Four networks. Click Here. May 10, 2013 — Bunche Center Director Darnell Hunt talks about findings from a recent study [...]
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BLACK LOS ANGELES American Dreams and Racial Realities Edited by Darnell Hunt and Ana-Christina Ramon “A true masterwork of urban studies. Taken together, these wide-ranging, diverse, original essays significantly expand our understanding of the African-American experience in Los Angeles. With breathtaking scope and vision, Black Los Angeles is a brilliant example of cutting-edge scholarship and [...]
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Check out the current issue of the Bunche Center News! DOWNLOAD Bunche Center Newsletter-May 2013
2012-2013 The academic year 2011-12 marked 42 years of university and community service for the Bunche Center. The year featured a provocative array of research and programmatic initiatives, including the Center’s Race and Hollywood Project ─ which aims to produce the definitive, on-going study of barriers to and best practices for diversifying the Hollywood entertainment [...]
Circle of Thought Brown Bag Lunch Series Presents Janira Teague On Thursday, May 23rd, the Bunche Center Circle of Thought Brown Bag Lunch Series presents Janira Teague, speaking on “I, too, Am America: Migrations, Identity and Citizenship in Black New York City, 1890s to 1930s.” The event will be held in the Bunche Library and [...]
The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies and affiliated faculty have been featured in news media in Los Angeles, throughout the nation, and around the globe. Please find a sampling of links to this news coverage below. Bunche Center in the News May 14, 2013 – The May issue of the International [...]
Plaque to Honor UCLA Freedom Riders The UCLA Undergraduate Students Association Council will dedicate a plaque in honor of the UCLA Freedom Riders on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 7:00 PM in Kerckhoff Hall 417, 308 Westwood Plaza. The event will take place on the same day as the burning of a Freedom Rider’s bus [...]
May 8, 2013 Black, Native, American: Narratives of Race, Place and History in ‘Black Town’ Tours” The Bunche Center Authors’ Series hosts Professor Karla Slocum, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Slocum will discuss how contemporary tour narratives of historical black towns situate these sites within a multiracial, multi-locational [...]
Bunche Center Authors’ Series features Sohail Daulatzai The Bunche Center Authors’ Series features Sohail Daulatzai, Associate Professor, Department of Film and Media Studies and the Program in African American Studies at the University of California – Irvine, on Thursday, May 9, 2013, from 12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM, in the Bunche Library and Media Center [...]
Sharon Luk - The Developing Field of Comparative Ethnic Studies The Bunche Center Circle of Thought Brown Bag Lunch Series presents Sharon Luk, Stanford University Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, who will present her lecture, “‘Between Starshine and Clay’: The Black Radical Tradition and Future Directions in Comparative Ethnic Studies” on Thursday, May 16, 2013, in the Bunche [...]
