Welcome to the website for the African-American Studies Minor at UC San Diego!
The interdisciplinary field of African-American Studies was first established in 1968 at San Francisco State University. UC San Diego began the African-American Studies minor (AASM) in the Fall of 2005, on the heels of a successful Contemporary Black Arts minor. AASM is a tapestry of the humanities, arts, and social sciences. The goal of AASM is to present a first look into the dynamic life experiences of African-Americans and the bold cultural celebration over three centuries. More ...
Events
Celebration of Africa
UCSD African Student Association
Presents the Second Annual
Celebration of Africa
Thursday, April 26th from 7pm till 9pm
Multipurpose room (Student Services Building)
Free food, fashion show, performances and more.
Sixth Annual Dr. Floyd Gaffney Playwriting Awards
- Finalists: Sixth annual Dr. Floyd Gaffney Playwriting Award on the African American Experience
- Cerstin Johnson: a Conversation with the 2012 Winner
Graduate playwriting student Jeff Augustin will debut his newest play
in the 2012 Baldwin Festival of New Plays.
Ever-eclectic Lytle's Liszt passion bears fruit
Pianist, a former TMC Provost, and his wife complete film on legendary composer.
Entitled “Liszt in the World,” Lytle’s labor-of-love film documentary offers a comprehensive profile of Franz Liszt, one of the most important and influential classical-music composers of the 19th century and beyond. More ...
Spelman or Morehouse Colleges Exchange Program -- Apply Now!
The application to attend the exchange program at Spelman or Morehouse Colleges is available on line. Please review the website and print out the application.
APPLICATIONS are due no later than Friday, February 10, 2012 in the Thurgood Marshall College (TMC) Academic Advising office in the TMC Administration building. For details about the application process or assistance to determine which quarter will work with your academic plan. Please contact the Advising office to arrange an appt for week 3 with Stephanie Muldrow.
Winners – 2011 Dr. Floyd Gaffney Playwriting Award on the African American Experience
Winner - Playwright: A-lan Holt for her play 8Ball.
An explosive, dramatic probe on the world of five individuals caught in Los Angeles during the pain of a 1980's crack epidemic. Lives rise and fall in a searing urbanmural of hope and decay.
Honorable Mention - Playwright: Tylar-Nicole Pendgraft-Clabby
for her play Take Up Your Cross.
Based on Langston Hughes's poem Cross, Take Up Your Cross depicts a young female of African American and white descent who occupies her father's home and is confronted by ghosts of her African American family.
Relevant Reading:
Hitching a Ride on the Chitlin’ Circuit with Author Preston Lauterbach
Successful writer and editor Preston Lauterbach was born in Richmond, Virginia and raised in San Diego, California. He graduated from Flagler College and the University of Mississippi. For most of the twenty-first century, he has worked as an editor and journalist.
Marshall Institute interview, "Your new book – “The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock n’ Roll” - runs the musical gamut from Al Green to Elvis. How do you describe the audience and eager readership for your new historical study?" More ...
Preston Lauterbach's web site
Call and Response – by Henry Louis Gates Jr & Jennifer Burton
Co-authored by UCSD's visiting scholar-in-residence Jennifer Burton and class-tested by Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his groundbreaking course, Call and Response is an innovative core reader for African American Studies.
"Call and Response: Key Debates in African American Studies"
Daniel Widener's Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles
"Focusing on the lives and work of black writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers, Daniel Widener tells how black cultural politics changed over time, and how altered political realities generated new forms of artistic and cultural expression." More...
EXCERPT - Chapter 8: How to Survive in South Central: Black Film as Class Critique
—Daniel Widener is Associate Professor of History and the Director of AASM.
Tapping into his history: Daniel Widener
