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Volume 11 2011-2012

Clayborne Carson’s 2012 Thurgood Marshall Lecture, Bunche Center Initiatives & more . . .

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85842_UCLA.indd 1 9/27/12 11:10 PM MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

The academic year 2011-12 marked forty-two years of university and community service for the Bunche Center. The year featured a provocative array of research and programmatic initiatives, includ- ing 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 industry. We also wel- comed home scholar, activist, and UCLA alumnus Clayborne Carson as our 23rd Thurgood Marshall lecturer and honoree.

The year also featured ongoing efforts by the Center to increase African American access to higher education at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Tapping into research initiated as part of the Center’s Ford Foundation-funded College Access Project for African Americans (2002-2008), Center scholars coordinated the writing of amicus legal briefs for court cases in the Sixth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal that challenged the bans on affirmative action in Michigan (Proposal 2) and Califor- Darnell Hunt nia (Proposition 209). These briefs were signed by dozens of social scientists and admissions experts throughout the state of California. Meanwhile, our Mellon Foundation-funded Summer Humanities Institute (SHI), which has prepared students for the rigors of graduate school since 2001, enjoyed its first year of support (of three) from the UC Office of the President’s initiative focused on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). It was an exciting year, and this year picks up where it left off.

During 2012-13, the Center aims to produce a pilot study that kicks off the Race and Hollywood Project in earnest. It also plans to continue pursuing funding for the next phase of the College Access Project for African Americans, which will undoubtedly grapple with whatever decision emerges from the Fisher v. University of Texas affirmative action case currently being reviewed by the U.S. Su- preme Court. SHI will be revamped in order to initiate and nurture ties between UCLA researchers and their counterparts at HBCUs. And, of course, the outcome of the November 2012 elections will most definitely chart a course for the nation that Center scholars are uniquely situated to examine.

I invite you to join us at Center events this year - Circle of Thought Brown Bag Lunch Series, Bunche Center Authors’ Series book signings, and the annual Thurgood Marshall Lecture, among others - as well as keep up with our research efforts on Hollywood diver- sity, college access, and related social justice issues. Please subscribe to our website (www.bunchecenter.ucla.edu) by visiting the main page and inputting your email address so that you will automatically receive the latest updates to our calendar and blog entries.

I look forward to connecting with you throughout what promises to be an eventful year.

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85842_UCLA_r1.indd 2 10/1/12 3:18 PM SUMMER HUMANITIES INSTITUTE 2012

In August, the Bunche Center’s Sum- SHI 2012 Cohort mer Humanities Institute (SHI), funded The 2012 cohort hailed from seven dif- through a generous grant from the Andrew ferent institutions: Howard, Hampton, W. Mellon Foundation and the Univer- Spelman, Tuskegee, Morehouse, Lane and sity of California Office of the President Clark Atlanta. (UCOP), concluded its 12th year.

SHI prepares traditionally underrepre- SHI Participant Comments sented students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to Students from the 2012 cohort had the 2012 SHI Cohort successfully complete a graduate program following comments about the program: in the humanities and humanistic social “SHI was fantastic! I conquered my fear of sciences. “I’ve participated in other programs before, but SHI was the most challenging for me. It public speaking and the mock trial demon- strations allowed me to express myself and get Students from previous cohorts continue helped me fine tune my research and writing my point out. I nailed my presentation head to make excellent progress in graduate skills. It [also] helped me to grow as an aca- on!” programs at Yale, Brown, Cornell, Auburn, demic.” Dorita Barr, Hampton University Davonte Logan, Tuskegee University Harvard, Penn State, Duke, and UCLA. “I now know so much more about grad Some have been awarded the prestigious “My experience with SHI has definitely school! [In SHI] I was challenged to think Fulbright Scholarship. This year, ten stu- provided me with the infrastructure I need on a whole other level. It’s been a really dents were selected from a highly to make it in graduate school.” Na’eemah memorable experience for me. The Ralph J. competitive pool of applicants. Webb, Lane College Bunche Center has helped me take it to the

next level.” Antwann Simpkins, More- house College

To learn more about SHI visit us on Facebook at:

www.facebook.com/BuncheCenter.SHI SHI Seminar SHI Black Los Angeles Tour AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES IDP During the 2011-2012 year, Mark Sawyer, degree, to have an interdisciplinary approach tracks. This allows students to take Associate Professor of Political Science, to education, committed to developing stu- combinations of courses that intersect and was named Chair of the Interdepartmental dents’ critical thinking skills to allow young are in conversation along interdisciplinary, Program in Afro-American Studies. He scholars to analyze African American issues, diasporic, and global lines. replaced Professor Brenda Stevenson, who situate them within the matrix of global con- served in the position for six years. cerns, and strengthen their skill sets towards employment. Departmentalization Proposal New Faculty

In the academic year of 2011-2012, the IDP welcomed a new faculty member - Sarah In October of 2011, the faculty voted to Haley - who taught classes for Afro- approve submitting a proposal for the IDP American Studies and Women’s Studies. in Afro-American Studies to become the Department of African American Studies. New Curriculum and New Major As a department, Afro-American Studies will Sarah Haley continue to draw on the strengths of core New IDP curriculum was finalized in the Afro-American Studies and Bunche Center spring of 2012 and goes into effect in fall professors, as well as affiliated faculty in other 2013. Also, in light of the University’s For more information contact Dr. Lisbeth departments. Challenge 45 initiative, the IDP reduced Gant-Britton at 310.825.3776, lbritton@ the number of required courses and updated bunche.ucla.edu,web: www.afro-am.ucla.edu. The new department will have an African the former narrow areas of concentration to Diaspora focus and will continue, to some broader Social Sciences and Humanities

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85842_UCLA_r1.indd 3 10/1/12 3:18 PM RESEARCH

Established as an organized research unit the production and business aspects of the Archival and Digitization Project (ORU) in 1969, the Ralph J. Bunche Center entertainment industry. for African American Studies at UCLA Audio and video items in the Bunche Cen- has a primary commitment to undertake The Center continues to meet with and ter collection provide a historical perspec- and sponsor research that enhances our outreach to entertainment industry profes- tive on the political and social movements understanding of the history, lifestyles, sionals and foundations to garner financial occurring in Los Angeles at the time of the material conditions, and sociocultural support for the project. A pilot report is Center’s inception in the late 1960s. The systems of women and men of African tentatively scheduled for late 2013. majority of these materials were digi- descent in the Americas, and in the Diaspora. tized with funding from a grant from the Primary Research Haynes Foundation. We have also digi- tized the largest collection of NOMMO, a In 2011 -2012, the Bunche Center moved UCLA African American student maga- forward with its research agenda. High- zine. We plan to create a Bunche Center lights included: online archive, which will be linked to the Bunche Center website, where many of these materials can be accessible to scholars and the broader community. Black Los Angeles Project Bunche Research Report The Bunche Center is engaged in a multi- year research initiative, The Black Los The October 2011 Bunche Research Report Angeles Project, which explores the histori- is a historical analysis of African American Race and Hollywood cal and contemporary contours of L.A.’s student activism at UCLA from 1960 black community by bringing together to 1963. As part of the Report and in The Race and Hollywood Project will the work of scholars from across Southern line with expanding the Bunche Center generate a comprehensive research analysis California. The book’s co-editors, Bunche archive, the Center published the first in of the inclusion of diverse groups in film Center Director, Dr. Darnell Hunt, and a series of memoirs by Professor Robert and television, including starring roles, the Bunche Center Assistant Director, Singleton, the Founding Director of writing, directing, producing, and talent Dr. Ana-Christina Ramon, continue to the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African representation; identify and disseminate conduct research related to the project. American Studies at UCLA from 1969 best practices for increasing the pipeline of They also gave guest lectures and panel to 1970. Professor Singleton is currently underrepresented groups into the Holly- presentations based on project research in an Economics professor at Loyola Mary- wood entertainment industry; and advance 2011-2012, including community panels mount University. existing industry efforts to catch up with and a presentation at the Carter G. Wood-

and better serve a diversifying America. son African American History Series at the California African American Museum in In addition to delivering research of the Los Angeles, California. highest caliber, the Race and Hollywood Project seeks to increase the pipeline of Affirmative Action Issues underrepresented minorities with the nec- essary skills to establish successful careers Geographic Research Using research initiated as part of our Ford and Mapping Project in the industry. The proposed program Foundation-funded College Access Project will expose ethnic minority, female, and for African Americans, the Center contin- The project seeks to develop a historically LGBT upper-division undergraduates to a ued its support of community initiatives. expansive, multimedia map detailing the wide range of career opportunities in the Dr. Darnell Hunt, and Dr. Ana-Christina geographic layout of African Americans in entertainment industry, and will equip Ramon, crafted an amicus brief in support Los Angeles from the mid-19th century them with the requisite experience and of overturning anti-affirmative action to the present in order to comprehensively contacts to pursue a viable career. legislation for court cases in the Sixth document the known period of black and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal that residence in the Los Angeles area. A new The planned outreach program will be challenged the bans on affirmative action UCLA web portal, designed and managed available to between 5 and 10 students in Michigan (Proposal 2) and California by the Bunche Center, will be created as a each year, and will incorporate insights (Proposition 209) at the request of the digital repository for the maps, graphics, from our well established and highly group, BAMN (By Any Means Necessary). and animations collected and created for successful Summer Humanities Institute, This effort could facilitate overturning the project. The Center continues to seek which targets HBCU students interested California’s Prop. 209, which has impacted in advanced degrees in the humanities and funding for this project. diversity in the University of California For more information on Bunche Center humanistic social sciences. During the system because it limits recruitment efforts Research visit www.bunchecenter.ucla. program, students will be exposed to both to underrepresented populations. edu.

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85842_UCLA.indd 4 9/27/12 11:10 PM INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN CULTURES (IAC)

During the 2011-2012 academic year, His study engages issues of Black education to legitimate increased expenditures for UCLA Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehav- in Los Angeles. He also focuses on other internal security as a spatial solution for ioral Sciences, Dr. M. Belinda Tucker, was important aspects of the black Angeleno social crisis. He examines the ways in appointed to serve in the newly established experience, including migration, diversity, which the political struggles of the racial- position of vice provost of the Institute of classism, colorism, de jure segregation, de ized poor expressed in social protests, American Cultures (IAC), the new admin- facto segregation, industrialization, deindus- uprisings, and struggles for survival istrative hub for UCLA’s four ethnic studies trialization, civil rights, housing and employ- have been represented in state and mass centers. In her new role, she will initiate ment. He utilizes the remembrances and mediated narratives. He states that campuswide research, educational programs documents emanating from black leaders to these struggles have often been depicted and collaborations that support a wide range bring to life the history. However, he also as increased lawlessness, crime, and ir- of disciplinary approaches to the study of endeavors to recover the history of ordinary rational violence. He suggests that such American cultures. poor and working-class black Angelenos. He narratives have treated the dissent of the will conduct oral histories and will be reading poor, people of color, prisoners, and im- The IAC was founded in 1969 as a collabora- non-traditional sources in order to locate the migrant workers as irrational expressions tive initiative to foster and advance ethnic voices of those removed from political power. of discontent against a rational neoliberal studies scholarship at UCLA and to build security state. connections among the four centers. Under His dissertation represents an attempt to a new academic plan, it’s being restructured refract the history of twentieth century His study explores how racial discourses and re-envisioned to advance understanding Black Los Angeles through Jefferson High. have naturalized the linkages between of the new social and cultural realities in neoliberalization, racialization, prison ex- America. Under Professor Tucker’s leader- Visiting Scholar, 2012-2013 pansion, and securitization in the period. ship as vice provost, the IAC will advance the understanding of the emerging America, Jordan Camp is currently a lecturer for the defined by recent unparalleled population Afro-American Studies Interdepartmental IAC Research Grants shifts, but also by increased fluidity with Program at UCLA. He graduated with a regard to race, ethnicity, identity and culture. doctoral degree in sociology from UCSB • Cesar Ayala, & Mark Sawyer, Faculty, in 2011. Dr. Camp’s project is titled “In- Sociology & Political Science, “Social, Each year the Institute of American Cultures, carcerating the Crisis: Racialization and political, and legal dimensions of current with oversight from the Graduate Division, Securitization in the Wake of the Second Afro-Puerto Rican race formation.” sponsors a competitive fellowship and grant Reconstruction.” The project traces how program to support research by faculty and prison expansion has been contested in • Robin Derby, Faculty, History, “Male graduate students. Awards are in the form of the cultural products of African American heroism, demonic pigs, and memories visiting scholar/researcher and pre-doctoral activists, artists, and social theorists during of violence in Haiti and the Dominican fellowships and research grants to faculty the post-Civil Rights era. His working Republic.” and students. The Center awarded one manuscript provides an historical and predoctoral and one visiting researcher fel- theoretical analysis of the Detroit Rebel- • Carol DeLilly, Grad Student, Nurs- lowship. It also awarded six faculty/student lions (1967-68), Attica Uprising (1971), ing, “Health literacy and medication research grants. lockdown of Marion Prison (1983), Los adherence among hypertensive African Angeles Revolt (1992), post-Katrina New American young men.” Predoctoral Fellow, 2012-2013 Orleans (2005), and the housing crisis in Los Angeles (2008) to argue that these • Nazgol Ghandnoosh, Grad Student, Michael Slaughter is a doctoral candidate in were particularly significant moments in Sociology, “Challenging prolonged the Department of History. Mr. Slaughter’s punishment: Activism for California’s project is titled “Lessons on Freedom: Jeffer- life-term prisoners.” son High School and Central Avenue, 1930 – 1980.” He seeks to identify and explain • Lucio Oliveira, Grad Student, Politi- the forces that transformed the community cal Science, “Black music and political of Central Avenue and Black Los Angeles Jordan Camp resistance under Brazilian authoritarian between 1930 and 1980. rule in Rio de Janeiro (1976-1979).”

the process by which anxieties created • Janira Teague, Grad Student, History, through economic crisis became described “I, too, am America: Identity, migrations, in the racialized terms of security, law and and citizenship in Black New York City, order. His study argues that the dramatic 1890 to 1930s.” Michael events studied in this work were security, Slaughter law and order. Dr. Camp’s study argues that these events studied in this work were seized upon and deployed as opportunities

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85842_UCLA_r1.indd 5 10/1/12 3:18 PM THURGOOD MARSHALL LECTURE ON LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS Given by 2012 Honoree Clayborne Carson, April 4, 2012

As I was walking across the campus [to- Coordinating Committee. I remember What I learned at UCLA was this bottom- day], it brought me back to 1965 when I getting a six hundred dollar grant from up approach to history. I go over to Stan- first enrolled here at UCLA. One of the the Faculty Center that paid for gasoline ford, I’m named editor of Martin Luther things that struck me is that I got a world (which was a different price then) for King Jr.’s papers, and I had to learn top- class education and yet my fees were never about two thousand miles of traveling down history. I’m trying to bring together more than two hundred dollars. I could throughout the United States to find every this early approach where I’m basically say- earn enough money working part-time, student I could in the Student Non- ing social movements start at a grass-roots and during the summers full-time, to put Violent Coordinating Committee. As that level…[with the top-down approach]. myself through this wonderful place and research in the early 1960s came together, get an education that was unparalleled to I began to understand something about One of the first things I did after Mrs. anything I could get anywhere. I am truly history that people weren’t talking about. King made me editor of his papers was thankful for that. But so much of my edu- to give a talk at the Capitol. Coretta was cation didn’t take place in the classroom. There were biographies of Martin Luther in the front row, and this is the first time It’s here that I met some extraordinary King, but there weren’t any studies of the she hears me speaking in public. I get to people who changed the way I view the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Com- the point where I talk about Martin and I world. mittee. I knew from my own experience said, “If Martin never lived, the movement that King didn’t cause the Montgomery would have happened pretty much the The first semester I was here, I went to see Bus Boycott. It was grass-roots people same way.” She frowned at me. Maybe I Martin Luther King, Jr. on Janss Steps. like E.D. Nixon, Rosa Parks, and Joanne shouldn’t have put it that bluntly, but that He gave a better speech at the March on Robinson. It wasn’t Thurgood Marshall was my approach when I started. My big- Washington and I saw that, but here was who created the conditions for Brown vs. gest struggle actually was trying to come the last time I saw him alive, so it has spe- the Board of Education. It was people to terms with what he [King] supplied. cial meaning for me. During 1966, I went like Barbara Johns in Farmville, Virginia, I spent the first part of my career show- to Pauley Pavilion and saw Stokely Car- who led a walkout in 1951. That walkout ing what all these other people had done, michael talk about black power. Stokely led to a legal case that became Brown vs. that they should take credit for all these Carmichael was the first person I met in the Board of Education. It wasn’t Martin movements. But then I had this task, SNCC before the March on Washington. Luther King who initiated the sit-ins of determining what he [King] added [to the We became friends and stayed friends 1960, or participated in the freedom riots movement]. I’ve spent the last 25 years for the rest of his life. I remember seeing of 1961. It wasn’t Martin Luther King- trying to explain to granting agencies and Maulana Karenga. Professor Brown’s to the King family why he’s important. wonderful book on Karenga indicates the That is something I could not have said 25 impact he had. I remember Tina Turner years ago, and certainly not when I was at at Ackerman Union, and Timothy Leary the March in 1963. When I think back, passing out LSD capsules. It was also here as a 19 year old, I didn’t have a clue about that I met this wonderful, lovely, incred- what I was looking at. [But] as I’ve gotten ibly bright young UCLA student, Susan older, King has gotten wiser. And it’s again Byer, who I spent the next 44 years with my pleasure to come to an understanding and she’s right there in the audience. So of who he is, why, and what he supplied to UCLA gave me more than you can pos- Clayborne Carson the movement. 2012 Thurgood Marshall Honoree sibly imagine. Carson and Bunche Center I entered UCLA [as a graduate history who was the stimulus for the Birmingham Director student] in 1969, the year of the killings Movement. Someone had to tell that Darnell Hunt in Campbell Hall. All of that was part Martin Luther King wasn’t the person who of my initial reintroduction to academic made possible the voting rights struggle life. It was a very heady time with lots of in the Deep South, in the delta of Missis- It came to me activism, but I learned that there was this sippi, and in Alabama. The field secretar- when we were conjunction between my activism and ies of the Student Non-Violent Coordinat- publishing King’s papers on the Montgom- what I was learning in the classroom. ing Committee went into these areas and ery Movement. I already knew he didn’t brought together this great movement. initiate it, really didn’t sustain it. It was I learned from the Student Non-Violent [It was] one of the great movements of basically women, [but] even E.D. Nixon Coordinating Committee, from people human history. Somebody had to tell couldn’t take credit for that wonderful like Danny Gray and Woody Coleman another kind of story about how move- boycott that lasted 381 days. To set up about bottom-up, grass-roots organizing. ments actually happen…that people can what happened… here’s Rosa Parks’ arrest, And suddenly I have [UCLA] teachers say- liberate themselves. People of all classes, and they organize this boycott. Monday ing bottom-up history! That led me to do all backgrounds can take part in their own comes, the boycott happens. It’s phenom- my research on the Student Non-Violent liberation. enally successful and then they decide,

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85842_UCLA.indd 6 9/27/12 11:11 PM Carson Lecture (Continued)

“We have a movement; we have to have a One of the things I helped design into the reason is that whether it’s in Johan- leader.” the memorial was this notion of Martin nesburg, South Africa, or Nairobi, Kenya, Luther King looking at Thomas Jeffer- there are times in all movements when you What they meant was that women orga- son, carrying on this perpetual dialogue: begin to have that question, “Is it worth nized this movement, [but] we have to “What did you mean when you justified it?” have a male to speak about it in public. a revolution on the basis of a statement of They had a meeting and Martin Luther universal equality? Were you just fooling The 200th day of the boycott, I’m sure King, Jr. is unexpectedly elected to lead yourself or were you fooling everyone else? a lot of people who had to walk to work because none of the older leaders wanted Was this a check returned, insufficient every day were thinking maybe sitting in each other - partly because they were funds, from the Bank of Democracy?” the back of the bus wasn’t so bad after all. jealous and partly because they knew that That is what King was talking about. It But you begin to realize that most of the whoever got elected would be a target. wasn’t civil rights reform. It was some- concrete things that we fight over are very Here’s this young minister in town, he’s thing that we still haven’t achieved. When important to us and that’s what initiates been outspoken, he’s very articulate, has a you think about those words of the Dec- a struggle. But ultimately, they’re not PhD from Boston University. “Let’s select laration of Independence, “… all men are enough to give purpose to that struggle. him.” Then they say, “Tonight we’re hav- created equal,” it’s not saying all American That’s what King was supplying. [King] ing our first mass rally of the Montgomery citizens. What does that say about our tied our movement to the movements of Improvement Association and we want you problems today? people around the world who were strug- to give a speech.” gling for freedom, and have been strug- We’re here to commemorate that day gling for freedom long before the 1950s. [King] has twenty minutes to prepare what when King was assassinated in Mem- [They] are still struggling for freedom he describes as the most important speech phis. [He was there] not for a civil rights today. of his life. He could have said what we movement, that was a labor movement. were going to do on the second day of the These were the people at the bottom of boycott. He didn’t talk about that. Other the social order but these were the people people were taking care of that. Instead, he chose to identify with at the very end he said, “We’re not here to talk about get- of his life, when he had every choice to ting a better seat on the bus. We’re talking come to UCLA, or Stanford and retire as about the Declaration of Independence. the campus minister. He chose not to do We’re talking about the Constitution of that. the United States. We’re talking about the Carson gives Thurgood Marshall Lecture, April 4, 2012 Supreme Court and the Brown vs. Board King was involved with what I would call of Education decision. We’re talking about the most audacious occupy movement the When I go around the world, one of the the Sermon on the Mount.” Then he says, world has ever seen. Try occupying the things I ask is, “How many generations “When the history books of the future National Mall, and not just for a while, from peasantry are you?” It’s a question are written, they’ll have to say there lived but until Congress acts on the question of that resonates wherever I am. It might a great people right here in Montgomery poverty. That would get people thrown be just one generation, two generations, who had the moral courage to stand up for in jail today. He gives this wonderful “I maybe five generations, but somewhere their rights.” When the history books of Have a Dream” speech. What does he back there, a good number of your ances- the future are written? This is a one-day say? “What you are struggling for is not tors were peasants. The first stage of that boycott, it’s not even in the newspapers yet really what you are struggling for.” What movement was against slavery and serfdom and he’s talking about when the history they thought they were struggling for and all of these systems that kept people books of the future are written. Go to any was decent wage and the right to orga- tied to the land and kept in place heredi- American history textbook today and the nize a union, but he said, “No, it’s about tary systems of domination. Gradually, Montgomery Bus Boycott is in it. That’s something else.” He talks this panorama we’ve moved beyond that and because of what he did. of history, going back to the beginning of the Democratic revolutions of the 20th time and asks himself if God gave him the century, people began to think about That’s what he did at the March on opportunity to live at any point in human something much more fundamental, a Washington, when all of the rest of us were history, when would that time be? He radical change making everyone into active thinking, “…this is about getting Ken- goes through the ancient times, through participants in deciding their own destiny. nedy’s civil rights bill through Congress.” the Renaissance, and the Reformation, That’s what I saw in SNCC. King under- He did not mention it [the civil rights various times in American history and he stood that. bill] one time in that speech. Instead he says, “No, I would chose to live just a few talked about what the architects of this years in the middle of the 20th century, That’s still what it’s about. That struggle is republic were writing [when they wrote] right where I am.” Why? He says, “… not over. If King were here, he would still the Declaration of Independence, “… all people say that that’s kind of crazy, the be the one asking us, “Are all these things men are created equal.” They were writing world is messed up, people are criticizing that you seem to struggle about today, do a promissory note. me right and left and all of this.” He said they give purpose to your life?” What he

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85842_UCLA.indd 7 9/27/12 11:11 PM SPECIAL PROJECTS & PROGRAMS

Carson Lecture (Continued) Circle of Thought (continued) Special Projects & Programs was trying to bring attention to is that all of us crave purpose from looking at February 16, 2012 Throughout the year, the Bunche Cen- our connection with history. “Where do Caroline Streeter, Assoc. Professor, Depart. ter hosted and co-sponsored a series of we fit in this history?” Where do we fit of English, UCLA, “On the Cover of a programs and events, including: in a global sense? Where do we fit with Magazine: Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys and what’s going on around the world in terms Race Aesthetics of the Cover Girl Image.” October 5, 2011 of other people struggling to free them- “Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes and selves? What’s the purpose that put us March 16, 2012 Black Women in America.” here? What purpose motivates us if all else Fred Ho, American jazz baritone saxo- fails?” What we realize is that things we phonist, composer, bandleader, playwright, November 13, 2011 were fighting for might not succeed in our writer, and social activist, “An Afternoon “High Voltage: The Watts Legacy.” lifetime, or even our kids’ lifetime. But with Fred Ho.” nonetheless, those things are worth it… February 27, 2012 [they give us] a purpose, a spiritual pur- New Institute of American Cultures (IAC) pose. I think if King were here, he would Winter Forum and Reception. tell us, “Struggle goes on. Don’t remember me by going to a King Holiday celebra- March 14, 2012 tion. Remember me in terms of the work “The Postgenomic Family.” I did and the work that is still unfinished.” April 12, 2012 The Thurgood Marshall Lecture on Robin D.G. Kelley and Fred Ho “Freedom Now: L.A.’s Fight for the Hu- Law and Human Rights May 3, 2012 man Right to Housing.” Sarah Haley, Asst. Professor, Depart. of This lecture series was established in 1986 Women’s Studies; Bunche Center Faculty to recognize the contributions of Supreme Associate, UCLA; “Critical Blues Femi- Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, whose nism and the Politics of Resistance in the brilliant record of civil rights advocacy is Era of the Chain Gang, 1908 – 1940.” often associated with the African American struggle for social and economic justice. May 17, 2012 Caroline Streeter Clayborne Carson, Professor of History, Joshua Bloom, IAC Pre-doctoral Fellow; Stanford University and Director, Martin Doctoral Candidate, Depart. of Sociol- May 8, 2012 Luther King, Jr., Research and Education ogy, UCLA, “Black Liberation Struggle in “Inequalities of Love: College-Educated Institute, was the twenty-third speaker in the Postwar Decades: Social Movement Black Women and the Barriers to Ro- 2012. The event was attended by over 200 Theory, and the Implications for Insurgent mance and Family.” guests. Social Movements Today.” Circle of Thought We thank all of the campus sponsoring/ Authors’ Series co-sponsoring organizations for their part- The Bunche Center Circle of Thought nership in presenting these events. Brown Bag Lecture Series provides a The Bunche Center Authors’ Series brings diverse campus audience with the opportu- renowned writers on the African American Library & Media nity to hear about groundbreaking research experience to UCLA. The Bunche Center done by UCLA faculty, graduate students, held five readings in 2011-2012, includ- “Images of Blackness” 2011-2012 Film and visiting scholars on African American ing: and Lecture Series was produced in con- Studies. In 2011-2012, there were nine junction with the Academic Advancement Circle of Thought programs including: October 14, 2011 Program. Dr. Henry D. Miller, “Theorizing Black November 10, 2011 Theatre: Art vs. Protest in Critical Writ- October 4, 2011 Kenny Burrell, Distinguished Professor ings, 1898-1965.” “Before They Die.” of Music and Ethnomusicology, UCLA, “Kenny Burrell: A Life in Music and February 21, 2012 March 1, 2012 Education.” Poet Kamau Daaood, selected readings. “Eyes on the Prize – The King Years.”

April 24, 2012 April 26, 2012 Kenny Burrell Rebecca Walker, “Black Cool: One Thou- “1992 Los Angeles ‘Riots’: Making Sense speaks to Bunche sand Streams of Blackness.” of the Fires.” Center gathering

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Fundraising & Chisholm Moore Adderley Scholarship (continued) Development Endowed Scholarship (continued) It represents an effort on the part of UCLA In 2011-2012, the Bunche Center Devel- Continuing awards were made in spring and the Bunche Center to foster greater opment Director aimed to identify, culti- 2012 to two undergraduate students who appreciation for African American musical vate, solicit and steward individual major received funding in 2011-12, Janae Bell heritage. gift donors and prospects. The Develop- and Jazmine Gordon, and to four Afro- ment Director continued these activities American Studies MA students for use in Salvador Robles is the 2012 recipient of until her departure in January 2012. Since 2012-13. the Adderley Scholarship. then, the Bunche Center Director and Assistant Director have worked to solicit support for research initiatives. Jazmine Gordon Salvador Robles

Gifts to the Bunche Center support our commitment to teaching, research, and service, ensuring that a UCLA education John Densmore Scholarship remains accessible and that the caliber of its scholarship and research is peer to In 1991, John Densmore, former drummer none. There are several ways to support for the musical group The Doors, estab- Bunche Center Affiliated the Center. For information on how to in- lished an endowment to support UCLA Faculty and Staff clude the Bunche Center at UCLA in your undergraduate majors or minors in Afro- News & Accolades giving plans, please contact the Bunche American Studies. The scholarship is award- Center Director at (310) 825-7403. Fall Quarter 2011 Thank You for Your Support! Winston C. Doby, The Bunche Center greatly appreciates former Vice Chancellor contributions from all of our generous for Student Affairs at donors, as well as the generous gift from UCLA, Vice President John Densmore Gregg De Lorto and the Heritage Guitar for Student Affairs in the UC Office of Company of Kalamazoo. ed to students demonstrating outstanding the President, and a academic success. Mr. Densmore cites his staunch advocate for early musical influence by great jazz musi- Heritage H-575 Guitar student diversity and Winston Doby cians, many of whom were African Ameri- on display in the Kenny access, passed away on can, as the reason he wanted to give back to Burrell Archives November 10, 2011 the community who inspired him. at the age of 70. His voice will be truly missed as we continue our struggles with Jonathan Zielke and Taylor Mason are the these pressing issues. 2012 Densmore Scholarship recipients. Roxanne Chisholm & Jeannette Chisholm Moore Kenny Burrell, Professor of Endowed Scholarship Ethnomusicology and Director of Jazz Studies, was honored at a concert In April 2007, Jeannette Moore, a retired celebrating his 80th birthday celebration educator, established an endowed schol- in Royce Hall on the UCLA campus in arship fund for students at the Bunche November 2011. Center to honor her late daughter Rox- Taylor Mason Jonathan Zielke anne. The gift shows Ms. Moore’s ongoing Walter R. Allen, Professor of Sociology and Education, visited Tel Aviv in December, commitment to education and increasing Adderley Scholarship diversity at UCLA. 2011, as a Fulbright Specialist. The Adderley Scholarship, established in Gail E. Wyatt, Professor of Psychiatry & 1976, honors the late jazz musician, Julian Biobehavioral Sciences, was honored as “Cannonball” Adderley. Jeannette Moore a local Freedom Sister at the Museum of Julian Tolerance, recognized in their recent travel- “Cannonball” ing exhibit about African American women Adderley who fought for civil rights.

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Winter Quarter 2012

Brenda Stevenson, Professor of History, became a member of the Board of Editors, Journal of Black Studies, on January 1, 2012.

Sondra Hale, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, received a “Life-Time Scholarly Achievement” award from the Association of Middle East Women’s Studies.

Richard Yarborough, Professor of English and former Director of the Bunche Center, was guest speaker at a session of the Conference of Ford Foundation Fellows in Irvine, California.

Spring Quarter 2012

Courtney H. Lyder, Dean of the School of Nursing, was presented with a resolution honoring his achievements and his “exceptional role in education.” Lyder is the first minority male dean of a nursing school in the United States.

Harryette Mullen, Professor of English, presented the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for poetry at the 17th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.

Mignon Moore, Associate Professor of Sociology, won the UCLA Academ- ic Senate and Office of Instructional Development Distinguished Teaching Award for Undergraduate Mentorship.

Gary Orfield, Professor of Education, Law, Political Science and Urban Planning at UCLA, and co-founder and director of The Civil Rights Project, was selected as one of the 2012 winners of the Dr. John Hope Franklin Award for his achievements as an advocate for racial equality in education, including his work with the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles (CRP) at UCLA.

Summer Quarter 2012

Antronette Yancey, Professor of Public Health, received the Pioneering Innovation Award from the Center for Disease Control for her efforts on behalf of obesity prevention & control initiatives.

Andrew Apter, Professor of History, along with Robin Derby, Associate Professor of History, gave the “University Lecture” at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, entitled “The Gender of the Curse: Witchcraft and Sorcery in Afro-Atlantic History.”

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85842_UCLA.indd 10 9/27/12 11:11 PM Media The Center has worked hard this year to enhance our relationship with a variety of media outlets. As a result, the Center was featured in numerous publications and other media, including:

Black Entertainment Television Los Angeles Sentinel PBS, The NewsHour CNN / KSRO Los Angeles Times Toronto Globe and Mail Crisis Magazine Michael Smerconish Radio Show UCLA Today Daily Bruin Our Weekly Warables Los Angeles Weekly PBS (KOCE-TV) Yomiuri

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You can also get info on the new Institute for American Cultures (IAC) at www.iac.ucla.edu or visit the Afro-American Studies Department website at www.afro-am.ucla.edu/

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Scott Waugh, UCLA Executive Vice Associate Professor Scot Brown, Professor Claudia Mitchell-Ker- Chancellor and Provost, addresses with Mandla Kayise, nan attends Thurgood Marshall Thurgood Marshall Lecture guests UCLA Black Alumni Association Past President, Lecture at Thurgood Marshall reception

A gift to the Bunche Center is an investment in the power of human potential. For information on how to include the Bunche Center at UCLA in your giving plans, please contact the Bunche Center Director at (310) 825-7403, visit the Bunche Center website www. bunchecenter.ucla.edu, or go to: www.giving. ucla.edu/Bunche Professor Robert Singleton with Thurgood Marshall Honoree Clayborne Carson

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Bunche Review, Vol. 11 (edited by Darnell Hunt, Ana-Christina Ramon, Jan Freeman & Dawn Jefferson)

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