REVIEWREVIEW Volume 12 2012-2013

John Mack’s 2013 Thurgood Marshall Lecture, Bunche Center Initiatives & more . . .

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88555_UCLA.indd 1 9/26/13 3:31 PM MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

On April 13, 1964, Sidney Poitier made history by becoming the first African American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor. Poitier’s Oscar-winning performance in Lilies of the Field resonated nicely with the integrationist project of the times by promoting a carefully contained image of blackness, the “Good Negro.” This representation would flourish in film and television throughout the turbulent 1960s, just as the philosophy of nonviolent direct action associated with the Civil Rights Movement was losing discursive ground to the more militant doctrine of Black Power.

Today — 50 years after Poitier’s achievement — an African American man occupies the White House and an African American woman heads the prestigious fraternity of Hollywood insiders who control the Oscars. But these achievements, viewed in isolation, run the risk of diverting our attention away from the stubborn realities of race in America. Just as the mass of African Americans today still find themselves near the bottom of society on nearly every measure of socioeconomic status, so too do people of color continue to enjoy only marginal participation in a Hollywood industry that produces more than mere Darnell Hunt entertainment. To be sure, there has been a lack of racial and ethnic diversity throughout the history of film and television, both in front of and be- hind the camera. Not only has this situation resulted in limited employment access for people of color in the industry, but it also has constrained the quantity and quality of the racial representations circulating in society. This is significant because media representa- tions contribute greatly to how we think about who we are, who we aren’t, and who we hope to be. We spend much of our existence engaged with the fiction-based dream worlds created by the Hollywood productions saturating the nation’s cultural space. But when marginalized groups in society are absent from the stories a nation tells about itself, or when these stories circulate representations rooted primarily in caricature and stereotype, inequality is normalized and is thus more likely to be reinforced over time. How do we make sense of the disconnect between an increasingly diversifying America and the continued marginalization of people of color in popular film and television?

During the 2013-14 academic year, the Bunche Center will mark the 50th anniversary of Poitier’s historic Oscar by kicking off a research project that centers this question. The Hollywood Advancement Project (a.k.a. Race and Hollywood) aims to accomplish three goals: 1) to generate a comprehensive research analysis of the inclusion of diverse groups in film and television, including starring roles, writing, directing, producing, and talent representation; 2) to identify and disseminate best practices for increasing the pipeline of underrepresented groups into the Hollywood entertainment industry; and 3) to examine the relationships between industry diversity (or the lack thereof) and the representational practices that shape popular film and television in an evolving America.

As we roll out the pilot study for the Hollywood Advancement Project, please join us at the Bunche Center for an engaging year of lectures, book signings, and other programmatic initiatives.

Darnell Hunt Director Professor of Sociology

Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA 160 Haines Hall Box 95154 Los Angeles, CA 90095 310-825-7403 (fax) 310-825-5019

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88555_UCLA_r2.indd 2 9/27/13 1:49 PM SUMMER HUMANITIES INSTITUTE 2013 In August, the Bunche Center’s Sum- North Carolina Central University, Tuske- mer Humanities Institute (SHI), funded gee University, and Fairfield University. through a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Univer- SHI Participant Comments sity of California Office of the President (UCOP), concluded its 13th year. Students from the 2013 cohort had the following comments about the program: SHI prepares high-achieving students from 2013 SHI Cohort historically underrepresented groups to “[Out of the SHI experience] I got life-long “I was able to establish connections that will pursue a doctoral degree in the humanities relationships and a support network, a be beneficial when I start applying to doctoral and social sciences, with a focus on the conscious awakening about racial politics, programs.” Donna Nelson, North Caro- African American experience. Students excellent grad school resources, and a better lina Central University graduate, entering from previous cohorts continue to make sense of direction for my life.” Christopher M.A. program at North Carolina Central excellent progress in graduate programs at Johnson, University of South Carolina University Yale, Brown, Cornell, Auburn, Harvard, Upstate Penn State, Duke, and UCLA. Some have I gained research, writing, and analytical been awarded the prestigious Fulbright “[The experience gave me] …more confidence skills that make me more confident to start Scholarship. This year, ten students were in my academic skills.” Aaron Coleman, my graduate program in the fall. I also selected from a highly competitive pool of Fort Valley State University networked with several faculty and staff at applicants. UCLA who gave me fantastic advice and “[At SHI] …I met new people, enhanced guidance about my research interests and my network, but most importantly, I learned future career.” Halimat Somotan, Fairfield how to write a research paper and a confer- University graduate, entering doctoral ence paper.” Sandra Davidson, Bennett program at Columbia University College “I feel accomplished and I feel better prepared “I have grown so much here academically.” for research and writing in grad school.” Shikaylah Brown, Lincoln University of SHI Black Los Angeles Tour Yasmin Ismail, Lincoln University of Penn- Pennsylvania sylvania graduate, entering M.A. program 2013 SHI Cohort at Villanova University

The 2013 cohort hailed from eight differ- “This program exceeded my expectations.” ent schools, primarily historically black Michael Taylor, University of Maryland colleges and universities. They included: Eastern Shore Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, Fort Valley State University, Bennett College, To learn more about SHI visit www.bun- University of South Carolina Upstate, SHI Field Study checenter.ucla.edu University of Maryland Eastern Shore; AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES IDP The Interdepartmental B.A. and M.A. Programs (IDP) oversee the granting of Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins degrees in Afro-American Studies. Mark of the LA Riots. Dr. Stevenson was the former chair of the IDP. Associate Sawyer, Professor of Political Science, is Other recent Afro-American Studies Professor Scot Brown, and Assistant Chair of the IDP. The Bunche Center graduates include Darrin Simington and Professor Aisha Finch were on leave supported the administrative needs of the Jamel Greer. Mr. Simington is at USC during the 2012-2013 academic year, IDP since its establishment in 1974 through working on a Masters in Social Work. Mr. doing research for their respective August 2012. Greer, who was a UCLA double major books. in Political Science and Afro-American IDP News and Accolades Studies, is attending Loyola School of Law in For more information contact Dr. Chicago. At Loyola, Mr. Greer is a member Lisbeth Gant-Britton at 310.825.3776, In 2012-2013, last year’s Departmental of the Chicago Bar Association Moot Court [email protected], or visit the Scholar, Erica von Pechmann, was admitted Team and the Senior Publications Editor for IDP website at www.afro-am.ucla.edu. to Harvard Law School. Ms. Von Pechmann the Education Law and Policy Society. will join another UCLA Afro-American Studies M.A. graduate, Asmara Carbado, Recent IDP faculty achievements include whose father, Devon Carbado, is a Professor publication of Dr. Brenda Stevenson’s new in the UCLA Law School. book, The Contested Murder of Latasha

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Established as an organized research unit Earlier this year, Center director, Dar- Affirmative Action Issues (ORU) in 1969, the Ralph J. Bunche Center nell Hunt, wrote the Writers Guild of (Continued) for African American Studies at UCLA America West 2013 TV Staffing Brief, has a primary commitment to undertake which highlighted three traditionally Angeles: American Dreams and Racial and sponsor research that enhances our underemployed groups in the TV industry: Realities, the Bunche Center Director and understanding of the history, lifestyles, women, minority, and older writers. His Assistant Director were contacted by the material conditions, and sociocultural research results on television staffing trends lead attorneys in the court cases arguing systems of women and men of African were featured in numerous publications for the plaintiff to end the anti-affirmative descent in the Americas and throughout including: Deadline Hollywood, Variety, action initiatives in California and Michi- the Diaspora. The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times, gan. The Wrap, Chicago Tribune, Indie Wire,

IMDB, and Getty Images. Primary Research

In 2012 -2013, the Bunche Center’s research agenda primarily focused on the Race and Hollywood Project (aka the Hol- lywood Advancement Project), and contin- ued work on the College Access Project for African Americans (CAPAA). In the summer of 2011, the attorneys asked the Bunche Center to take the lead in writing an amicus brief that could be With collective funding from numerous submitted to both the Sixth Circuit and sources, an endowment will support the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Novem- research project and enable the Bunche ber 2011 and January 2012, respectively. Center to produce the Hollywood Diver- Dr. Hunt and Dr. Ramon co-wrote the sity Report, a definitive annual accounting amicus brief that was signed by California of diversity statistics for the industry. This social science researchers and admissions report will provide studios and networks experts. with useful, annually updated information that enables them to match their products Based on CAPAA research and updated to changing American demographics. A analysis through 2011, they crafted the Race and Hollywood pilot report on Hollywood diversity is report (with support from a few legal tentatively scheduled for late 2013. scholars) to inform a legal audience about The Race and Hollywood Project will the burden placed on African Americans, generate a comprehensive research analysis In 2012-2013, the Center was awarded a as well as Latinos due to the statewide ban of the inclusion of diverse groups in film seed grant from Sony Pictures Entertain- on affirmative action. The brief supported and television, including starring roles, ment (SPE) as well as consultation services the plaintiffs’ argument that California writing, directing, producing, and talent in support of the Race and Hollywood Proposition 209 violates the Equal Protec- representation; identify and disseminate Project. tion Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment best practices for increasing the pipeline of of the U.S. Constitution. The Bunche underrepresented groups into the Holly- To learn more about the Race and Hol- Center has again been commissioned to wood entertainment industry; and advance lywood Project/Hollywood Advancement write an amicus brief for the case that has existing industry efforts to catch up with Project visit the Center’s website at www. been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. and better serve a diversifying America. bunchecenter.ucla.edu, click research. The brief was submitted in August 2013. Affirmative Action Issues

The Bunche Center’s work on the Col- lege Access Project for African Americans (CAPAA) continues to have significant policy implications on affirmative action issues in California and the country. Be- cause of the Bunche Center’s outreach to community groups and a chapter examin- ing CAPAA’s research in Black Los

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88555_UCLA_r2.indd 4 9/27/13 1:49 PM INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN CULTURES (IAC)

During the 2012-2013 academic year, discusses identity, culture, and political UCLA Professor of Psychiatry and Biobe- engagement with a comparative study of havioral Sciences Dr. M. Belinda Tucker Jamaican and Trinidadian immigrants in continued to serve as vice provost of the New York and Los Angeles. The Bunche Negin Ghavami Institute of American Cultures (IAC), Center believes the project will greatly in- the administrative hub for UCLA’s four form the understanding of diversity within ethnic studies centers. In her role, she “blackness.” initiates campuswide research, educational programs and collaborations that support Mr. Gooding’s project examines the role a wide range of disciplinary approaches to that three social context elements—reli- the study of American cultures. gious institutions, media and the neigh- •Negin Ghavami, Graduate School of borhood—play in the development of Education & Information Studies The IAC was founded in 1969 as a col- political frames, racial/ethnic identity and “Disparities in Health and Academics of laborative initiative to foster and advance political engagement. He grounds the the- Urban, Ethnics Minorities LGBQ Middle ethnic studies scholarship at UCLA and to oretical approach of this study with respect School Students.” build connections among the four centers. to racial/ethnic identity in current events Its purpose is to re-envision understand- by examining the campaign of Barack ing of the new social and cultural realities Obama and the role that identity played in in America. Under Vice Provost Tucker’s Afro-Caribbean political engagement. leadership, the IAC is advancing the understanding of the emerging America, In addition to examining the impact of defined by recent unparalleled population social context on traditional engagement, Paul Von Blum shifts, and by increased fluidity with regard Mr. Gooding also investigates how cultural to race, ethnicity, identity and culture. practices operate as forms of political en- gagement. His research uses data collected •Paul Von Blum, Afro-American Studies Each year, the Institute of American Cul- from 75 in-depth interviews conducted in The Civil Rights Movement for Beginners tures sponsors a competitive fellowships New York and Los Angeles with first and and grant program to support research by second-generation black immigrants from Graduate Students: faculty and graduate students. Awards are Jamaica and Trinidad. He also uses survey in the form of visiting scholar/researcher data from the 2004 National Politics Study •Susila Gurusami, Sociology and pre-doctoral fellowships and research and the 2012 Collaborative Multi-racial “Mothering on the Margins: Race and grants to faculty and students. The Post-Election Study (CMPS). Class Constructions of Precarious Mother- Bunche Center awarded one predoctoral ing.” fellowship. It also awarded nine faculty/ student research grants. •Jacob Lau, Gender Studies “Sistership as Survival: Looking after Syl- Predoctoral Fellow, 2012-2013 IAC Research Grants via, Marsha and Queens in Exile.”

The 2013-2014 IAC Graduate/Predoctoral The IAC also awarded research grants •Kimberly Mack, English Fellow with the Bunche Center is Cory for the 2013-2014 year to both faculty “The Fictional Black Blues Figure: Blues Gooding, who is pursuing his PhD in and graduate students. A few were for Music and the Art of Narrative Self- history. continuing support of projects from 2012- Invention.” 2013. His project, “Roots, Rhythm and Reli- •Winter Schneider, History gion: The Politics of Context, Identity and “History, Memory and Identity in Haiti’s Culture among Afro-Caribbeans in New Faculty and Staff: Lakou: Views from the Diaspora.” York and Los Angeles,” seeks to use social context to develop the way political science •Walter Allen and Patricia McDonough, Graduate School of Education & Informa- tion Studies Janira Teague Cory Gooding “Counselor Calculus: Assessments of Student-Institutional Fit and (Mis)concep- tions about the UC.”

•Robin Derby, History •Janira Teague, History “Male Heroism, Demonic Pigs and “I, too, Am America: Migrations, Identity Memories of Violence in Haiti and the and Citizenship in Black New York City, Dominican Republic.” 1890s -1930s.”

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88555_UCLA.indd 5 9/26/13 3:31 PM THURGOOD MARSHALL LECTURE ON LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS Given by 2013 Honoree John Mack, April 4, 2013 I am indeed privileged and deeply honored plished a number of things, but I think to have been selected to deliver the 24th its merit, in so many ways, was as a Thurgood Marshall lecture. As mentioned catalyst. It was an inspiration to millions earlier, today, April 4th, is a troubling and of American people. Not just African disturbing reminder of the assassination of Americans, but others. The March on the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Lor- Washington, combined with the Bloody raine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. At Sunday March across the Edmund Pet- lunch today, we went around the table and tus Bridge in Alabama, moved President people recalled where they were and what Lyndon B. Johnson and Congress to enact they were doing on that tragic day. I was the 1965 Voting Rights Act. [The Voting John Mack and a student in Atlanta, one of the activists of Rights Act] empowered African Ameri- UCLA Chancellor the Atlanta Student Civil Rights move- cans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, and the Gene Block ment, along with Julian Bond and Otis poor to exercise their right to vote. This Moss. Dr. King had just returned from created the powerful, diversified coalition cause of the March on Washington. Montgomery, [where] he was co-pastor of of American voters that we have today. the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Dr. King The Voting Rights Act [which also came and Whitney Young were our two closest A short period after the march, Whitney out of the march] resulted in thousands advisors. Dr. King had the ability to make Young proposed the Domestic Marshall and thousands of African Americans be- you feel like you were the most important Plan. Just as they thought America had ing elected, being a part of public policy person in the room, whether you were in a gone over and invested millions of dollars making at the city, county, state, and one-on-one or a small group discussion. to help rebuild a war-torn Europe, in a federal level. But the reality is that there similar fashion, they wanted the same kind is still disproportionate unemployment, of commitment to rebuild urban areas. and poverty remains a major problem. Whitney Young really developed a very ef- Education [is still a problem], especially fective relationship with Lyndon Johnson, in LAUSD, where our young ones are not and many elements of the Whitney Young being prepared to qualify for admission Domestic Marshall Plan were incorpo- to UCLA and other institutions of higher rated into the war on poverty - Medicare, learning, or prepared for the 21st century Medicaid, job training, and jobs. The work place. So [despite all that the March momentum the march provided the Civil on Washington accomplished] we really Rights Movement resulted in affirmative still have a lot of work to do. John Mack (center) action laws and policies in employment 2013 Thurgood Marshall Honoree and education, which brought in more I was privileged during my years at the Ur- African Americans and students of color ban League to have established the Milken Both he and Whitney were pragmatic to colleges and universities throughout the Youth Training Center. It was focused idealists. It’s great being able to dream the nation. Not nearly enough of course. on working with young children at the big dreams, to have the big vision, but one elementary and middle school level. We must have the capacity and the leadership [In terms of education and employment,] had young people come in after school to ability to be able to translate the big ideas if UCLA and other institutions in our the center, which was located on Cren- into actions. The March on Washington state attempting to make real progress shaw Boulevard. They would be tutored, was for jobs and freedom. Dr. King’s getting a few more of our students into the improve their reading by one grade level memorable speech set in motion unprec- UC system recognize that we have gone within a three-month period of time, or edented civil rights progress in America. backwards over the last several years, there math by two grade levels within a similar Dr. King’s speech and the march ranked can be some improvement in the numbers, period. They were also exposed to positive as one of the most important events in the in the admissions of the African American role models; alternatives to gangbangers. history of our nation. The march and the and Latino students. The encouraging I’m very proud of the work that our staff speech propelled the civil rights move- news is that the private sector has stepped and volunteers did. It was an outstanding ment, pricked the conscience of America, up, discovered that you can do good and job. It is the kind of thing we need to do inspired and mobilized millions, and do well at the same time. The private sec- within our community to make a positive elevated America’s number one domestic tor has Ursula Burns, the CEO of Xerox, difference. It’s not all fixed. We’ve still problem, the issue of race, onto the agenda Kenneth Chenault, the CEO of American got a big problem. But that was a focus of unfinished business that we continue to Express, Clarence Otis of Darden Res- to make sure the quality of education was struggle with today. taurants, African-Americans who are the improved for young people. CEOs of corporations and in other key Dr. King was one of the most transforma- leadership positions because of affirmative Another area, and this was perhaps the tive leaders and figures of the 20th century, action laws. No we don’t have nearly as most challenging and difficult experience both in America and throughout the many [CEOs] as we ought to have, but we that I had, was with the LAPD. For de- world. The March on Washington accom- have more than we had 50 years ago be- cades, especially going back to the Daryl

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88555_UCLA.indd 6 9/26/13 3:31 PM MACK LECTURE (Continued) SPECIAL PROJECTS & PROGRAMS

Gates era, LAPD was a brutal racist institu- not solve all the problems. Unemploy- Circle of Thought tion operating like an occupation force in ment remains at a disproportionate high, the African American community. education remains unequal, homelessness The Bunche Center Circle of Thought is a problem and the list goes on and on. Brown Bag Lecture Series provides a diverse But in spite of it all, we have to remain campus audience with the opportunity to optimistic. We have to keep our eyes on hear about groundbreaking research done the prize, however difficult the challenges by UCLA faculty, graduate students, and may be. visiting scholars on African American Stud- ies. In 2012-2013, there were eight Circle (Getty Images) Fifty years after the march, Los Angeles is of Thought programs including: the new Ellis Island of America, a pioneer- We fought and protested. There were 22 ing experiment of democracy. We must November 29, 2012 young African American men who died remind ourselves of the unfinished agenda Travis L. Dixon, Associate Professor of due to chokeholds and Daryl Gates said of the march, [and work towards] the Communication Studies, UCLA, “The there was something “magically” wrong creation of a level playing field, to ensure Content and Effects of Racial Stereotyping with them and [that it had] nothing to do in the Mass Media: Continuing Issues in with what the cops were doing. The list the 21st Century.” [of abuses] goes on and on. But I would submit to you that today’s LAPD is an February 14, 2013 example of institutional reform. [As Dr. Tyrone Howard, Professor, Graduate School King and the march taught,] an institu- of Education & Information Sciences, tion can change, but a lot of things have to UCLA, “The State of African-American cause that to happen. [Then] Mayor Tom Education in a Post-Racial Era: Promise or Bradley appointed Warren Christopher Peril?” and the Christopher Commission came forth with a number of sweeping reforms Mack gives Thurgood Marshall February 28, 2013 Lecture, April 4, 2013 recommendations. [For example], moving Cory C. Gooding, Doctoral Candidate, De- forward, no police chief would serve more that everyone, without regards to race, partment of Political Science, UCLA, “One than a maximum of 10 years; strengthen- economic condition, gender, sexual orien- of Us?: Barack Obama, Afro-Caribbeans ing the role of the police commission; cre- tation, or religion has a seat at the table of and the Politics of Identity.” ating an office of Inspector General. And justice. [A table that] Thurgood Marshall most importantly, the one thing that really and other visionary leaders on whose makes me jump for joy, the Commission’s shoulders we stand have set. As Dr. King call for Daryl Gates to go. It was a long so eloquently stated, “Injustice anywhere battle. But we had a series of events, such is a threat to justice everywhere.” Thank as the Rampart scandal, which provided us you very much. [the Police Commission] with additional Karla Slocum leverage and strengthened our role. That’s May 8, 2013 one of the success stories of an institution Karla Slocum, Associate Professor of An- being reformed and changes that we should thropology at the University of North Caro- all be very proud of. The Thurgood Marshall Lecture on lina, Chapel Hill, “Black, Native, American: Law and Human Rights Narratives of Race, Place and History in As I think about the March on Washington ‘Black Town Tours.’” and the 50 years that followed, nationally This lecture series was established in 1986 and locally, undeniable progress has been to recognize the contributions of Supreme May 9, 2013 made. However Dr. King’s dream is only Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, whose Sohail Daulatzai, Associate Professor in the partially fulfilled. We have our first Afri- brilliant record of civil rights advocacy is Department of Film and Media Studies and can American president, but that does often associated with the African Ameri- the Program in African American Studies at can struggle for social and economic the University of California, Irvine, “Black justice. John W. Mack, Vice President of Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim Interna- the Los Angeles Board of Police Commis- tional and Black Freedom beyond America.” sioners and former President of the Los Angeles Urban League, was the twenty- May 16, 2013 fourth speaker in 2013. The event was Sharon Luk, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, attended by over 120 guests. Intro. Liberal Education Program, Stanford University, “‘Between Starshine and Clay’: (AP Photo/File) The Black Radical Tradition and Future Directions in Comparative Ethnic Studies.”

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Circle of Thought (continued) Authors’ Series (continued) Events (continued)

May 23, 2013 November 28, 2012 John Huggins, Jr. Memorial Ceremony; Janira Teague, Doctoral Candidate, Dayo F. Gore, Associate Professor of Eth- Dr. Winston C. Doby Distinguished Lec- Department of History, UCLA, “I, too, nic Studies and Critical Gender Studies at ture Series; Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Am America: Migrations, Identity and the University of California – San Diego, Series, Institute of American Cultures Citizenship in Black New York City, 1890s Radicalism at the Crossroads: African Ameri- Inaugural Conference; Duke Ellington to 1930s.” can Women Activists in the Cold War. Celebration and Lecture.

May 30, 2013 December 2, 2012 Library & Media Jordan T. Camp, Visiting Scholar, Institute Tad Hershorn, Author & Jazz Archivist, of American Cultures & Ralph J. Bunche Norman Granz: The Man who Used Jazz for The Library and Media Center (LMC) has Center for African American Studies, Justice. several notable archives and over 8,000 UCLA, “Interpreting the Housing Crisis materials focusing on African, African in Los Angeles: Race, Class, and Dispos- January 24, 2013 publications, and Caribbean history and session.” Caroline A. Streeter, Associate Professor, culture in its collection. During 2012- Department of English, UCLA, Tragic No 2013, the LMC provided bibliographic More: Mixed-Race Women and the Nexus of instruction, meeting space, and outreach Jordan Camp Sex and Celebrity. in addition to regular library services. On-campus events included: “The Images January 24, 2013 in Blackness Series” and a Black History Mary Bucci Bush, Professor of English Month Film Series. and Creative Writing at California State Authors’ Series University, Los Angeles, Sweet Hope.

The Bunche Center Authors’ Series brings January 31, 2013 renowned writers on the African American “Authors Meet Critics” Series experience to UCLA. The Bunche Center Joshua Bloom, UCLA graduate student held nine readings in 2012-2013, includ- in Sociology, and Waldo Martin, Professor ing: of History at UC Berkeley, Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black October 8, 2012 Panther Party. In June 2013, the LMC co-sponsored a Theresa Runstedler, Assistant Professor of booth at the Sixth Annual Leimert Park American Studies at the State University Village Book Festival to promote informa- of New York at Buffalo, Jack Johnson, Rebel tion about the Center and its work in the Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Joshua Bloom black community. Global Color Line. Fundraising & October 25, 2012 Development Marcia A. Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Pro- fessor at USC Annenberg, Clearly Invisible: February 11, 2013 In the fall of 2012, the Bunche Center Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Charlotte Pierce Baker, Professor of was awarded a seed grant from Sony Identity. Women’s and Gender Studies and English Pictures Entertainment (SPE). SPE also at Vanderbilt University, This Fragile Life: offered the Center consultation services. October 25, 2012 A Mother’s Story of a Bipolar Son. These grants were in support of the Cen- Bayo Holsey, Assistant Professor of African ter’s Race and Hollywood Project. & African American studies and Cultural Events Anthropology at Duke University, Routes In 2012 – 2013, the Center submitted of Remembrance: Refashioning the Slave Throughout the year, the Bunche Center letters of inquiry and grant proposals to Trade in Ghana. co-hosted/co-sponsored a series of pro- several foundations, including the Ford grams and events, including: Foundation, the Walter Kaitz Foundation October 31, 2012 UCLA Black Convocation; Queers of and the Screen Actors Guild-Producers H. Samy Alim, Associate Professor of Color: Histories and Theories; Inside Out: Anthropology and Linguistics at Stanford Social Justice, Activism and the 2012 Vote; University, Articulate While Black: Barack UCLA Institute of American Cultures Fall Obama, Language and Race in the U.S. Forum and Reception; Environmental Jus- tice Initiative Symposium; Bunchy Carter/

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Fundraising & John Densmore Scholarship In Memoriam (continued) Development (continued) & The Adderley Scholarship This spring, the Bunche Center celebrated Industry Advancement and Cooperative In 1991, John Densmore, former drum- the life of Dr. Toni Yancey, who passed Fund. The Center submitted corpo- mer for the musical group The Doors, away on April 23, 2013. Dr. Yancey was rate donor requests to CBS Television, a professor at the UCLA Fielding School Paramount Pictures, Fox Entertainment, of Public Health who devoted her career Disney ABC, and NBC Universal. to improving the health of vulnerable populations and eliminating health dispari- For SHI, the Center received a $300,000 ties. She died April 23 at her home in Los Mellon Foundation grant in 2011, and a Angeles following a battle with lung cancer. grant from The University of California- John Densmore She was 55 years old. Historically Black Colleges and Universi- ties Initiative (UC-HBCU) in the amount established an endowment to support Yancey, a passionate advocate of healthy of $166,628 in 2012. In 2012-13, the UCLA undergraduate majors or minors living through physical fitness, was widely Center continued to seek new external in Afro-American Studies. The scholar- known for creating “Instant Recess,” a funding for the SHI program. ship is awarded to students demonstrat- unique program dedicated to “making ing outstanding academic success. Mr. America healthier 10 minutes at a time.” The Bunche Center Director and Assis- Densmore cites his early musical influence tant Director have been working to solicit by great jazz musicians, many of whom support for the Center’s research initia- were African American, as the reason he tives and continue to pursue these and wanted to give back to the community other funding opportunities. To make a who inspired him. contribution, you may contact the Center directly at (310) 825-7403. The Adderley Scholarship, established in 1976, honors the late jazz Her idea of incorporating brief bouts of Roxanne Chisholm musician, Julian physical activity into people’s daily routine, & Jeannette Chisholm Moore “Cannonball” whether at school, work or worship, earned Endowed Scholarship Adderley. Awards her numerous awards, including the 2012 are made to Julian Pioneering Innovation Award from the In April 2007, Jeannette Moore, a retired undergraduates “Cannonball” U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Adderley educator, established an endowed scholar- specializing in Afro- Prevention. ship fund at the American Studies, Bunche Center music, and related areas. She was one of a handful of national to honor her thought leaders asked to serve on the late daughter These scholarships, the Julian board of directors of the Partnership for Roxanne. The “Cannonball” Adderley Scholarship a Healthier America, the nonprofit that gift shows Ms. and the Densmore Scholarship, will be guided First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Moore’s ongo- awarded in the Winter/Spring of 2014. Move campaign. Yancey co-founded the ing commitment Jeannette Moore In Memoriam Fielding School’s UCLA Kaiser Permanente to education and Center for Health Equity, through which increasing diversity at UCLA. she championed the cause of social justice. She was tireless in her commitment to Awards were made in spring 2013 to ensure that research findings would trans- three undergraduate students – Altagracia form lives. She made change happen in Alvarado, Nyesha Johnson-Blewett, and countless ways, from advocating for policy Na’Keenya Jackson. change and cajoling employers to allow their staffs to engage in “Instant Recess” The four M.A. student scholarship recipi- on paid time, to serving as a role model for ents were – Jonathan Freeman, Alejandra countless minority students, and connect- Antronette “Toni” Yancey Griffin, Kimber Thomas, and Marques ing on a personal level with the community November 1, 1957 - April 23, 2013 Vestal. All received funding based on their members she served. academic excellence and commitment to “Doctor – Educator – Author – Poet” African American Studies.

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88555_UCLA.indd 9 9/26/13 3:31 PM BUNCHE CENTER AFFILIATED FACULTY & STAFF News & Accolades (continued) Devon W. Carbado, The Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, released two new books:Acting White? Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America and The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives.

Dr. Tumaini Rucker Coker, assistant professor of pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine and Mattel Children’s Hospital was honored with the 2012 Nemours Child Health Services Research Award at the Academy Health annual research meeting.

Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, professor emeritus of ethnomusicology in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, was honored by students and colleagues at “Resiliency and Distinction: An Inspired Professor’s Yield — Students Who Think Deeply,” a conference at Azusa Pacific University.

Phillip A. Goff, assistant professor of psychology, contributed to the anthology, Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Con- temporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics, edited by George Yancy and Janine Jones.

Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter — multiple Grammy Award winners and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters — were named UCLA professors at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Seen in this picture (right) with the UCLA Thelonius Monk Fellows.

Darnell Hunt, professor of sociology and director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, was featured as a Politic365 Game Changer by Politic365.com.

Francoise Lionnet, professor of French and Francophone Studies and director of the James S. Coleman African Studies Center, released the books: Writing Women and Critical Dialogues: Subjectivity, Gender and Irony and The Known and the Uncertain: Creole Cosmopoli- tans.

Courtney H. Lyder, dean of the UCLA School of Nursing, is this year’s recipient of the National League of Nurs- ing’s President’s Award for his significant contributions in nursing education.

Harryette Mullen, professor of English, released a new book, The Cracks Between What We are and What We are Supposed to Be.

Gary Orfield, professor of education and Lorrie Frasure-Yokley, assistant professor of political science, were featured at The Speaking of Education Lecture series at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies in May 2013 and discussed the book, The Resegregation of Suburban Schools: A Hidden Crisis in American Education. Orfield edited the book, Frasure-Yokley contributed.

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Dr. Eugene Washington, dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and vice chancellor for health sci- ences, has been appointed vice chair of the California Wellness Foundation.

Gail E. Wyatt, a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and co-director of the UCLA AIDS Institute, received a $2.5 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for a a UCLA-led project for a unique HIV intervention program.

Richard Yarborough, professor of English, received the Minority Scholars Committee’s first Richard Yarborough Award in Mentoring at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association in Puerto Rico in November 2012.

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