SIGNING BLACK in AMERICA is the first documentary about Black ASL: the unique dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) that developed within historically segregated African American Deaf communities. Largely unknown to outsiders, Black ASL has become a symbol of solidarity and a vital part of identity within the Black Deaf community. The film runtime is [...]
Join the Forum for the Academy and the Public for a pair of panels that will consider the global perception of the United States. In collaboration with the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), international authors and journalists will offer perspectives on the American identity in the 21st century. Each event will be an hour long, [...]
Topic: Everyday Boundaries and Returning Borderlands: The Films of Dr. Mael Vizcarra Description: Join us for a live streaming of Dr. Mael Vizcarra’s documentary films, “La Línea” (2019) and “Pánico en Pánuco” (2020) preceded by her introduction. Dr. Mael Vizcarra’s work explores the everyday life of working-class people along the Mexico-U.S. border through filmmaking. “La [...]
A24 Films' description: Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind. As he struggles to reconnect with his family and reconstruct [...]
Join us for a conversation about voice and Black creativity The #UCI1619Project continues through a conversation with Taylor Shaw (writer, producer, and founder of Black Women Animate) and Jon Key (illustrator, designer, and fine artist whose work appears in The 1619 Project). Black Women Animate is dedicated to cultivating talented women of color and other [...]
Frank B. Wilderson III, a former student of [Saidiya] Hartman’s who now chairs the department of African-American studies at the University of California, Irvine, described her as quietly persuasive. “She’s not an ‘angry Black woman,’ ” he told me. “She’s not Assata Shakur. But what they don’t know is that, where Assata Shakur will blow your [...]
How Race & Ethnicity Matter in Youth Mentoring Bernadette Sanchez, Professor College of Education University of Illinois at Chicago Monday, October 19, 2020 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. Register to connect via Zoom https://uci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NboMRclHSzW6IDvTOLqIwQ Abstract: Much of the literature on youth mentoring has focused on the effects of mentoring interventions (e.g., DuBois et al., 2011; [...]
Designing the Narrative with Taylor Shaw and Jon Key Description This event brings together two path-forging creatives for a conversation about race and representation in the current moment. Taylor Shaw is a writer, producer, and founder of Black Women Animate, a studio dedicated to cultivating talented women of color and other underrepresented people in the [...]
Join the Forum for the Academy and the Public for a pair of panels that will consider the global perception of the United States. In collaboration with the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), international authors and journalists will offer perspectives on the American identity in the 21st century. Each event will be an hour long, [...]
Book Talk Series: Reimagining the Latinx Experience in America September - October 2020 Select Mondays, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Zoom Details will be emailed to registered attendees 24 hours in advance The Book Talk Series: Reimagining the Latinx Experience in America is part of the project: The Future of Latinos in the United States: Law, [...]