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The class is eye opening to the real world, and you will learn so much about racism in America. Join us for a dynamic conversation on Latinx activism, resilience, self-love and healing with author Mike de la Rocha and his uncle, UCSB alumnus Cástulo de la Rocha (‘73), founders of the Ismael “Mayo” de la Rocha Scholarship in Chicana/o Studies.

What they came away with was a vision for a small collective interested in not only educating and informing people about the relative lack of women of color in mainstream cinema but also helping to change it. In the coming months, Banks, Johnson, and Bluitt will begin cataloging more than 1, films, as well as setting up a web-based platform for women-of-color filmmakers to connect with agents, publicity firms, and actors.

Best of Santa Barbara® Wedding Santa Barbara Green Guide Classifieds Advertise About Us Contact Us Create Event Subscribe. She also serves as Chair of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. Dulcie Lives On!

The Regents of the University of California. Call or visit solsistersrising. Username or Email Address. Her first book, Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity: Music, Race, and Spatial Entitlement in Los Angeles (University of California Press) is a history of civil rights and spatial struggles among Black and Brown freedom seekers and cultural workers in LA.

Professor Johnson is probably the best professor I've had at UCSB and this is the honestly the best class I have taken, coming from an engineer major. Sign in. Sat Aug 23, pm. The Departments of Black Studies and Chicana and Chicano Studies are pleased to announce that Professor Gaye Theresa Johnson will deliver our joint Spring Colloquium Lecture.

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All Rights Reserved. More Like This. I'm a historian of freedom struggles and cultural politics. com for info. At UCLA, I write and teach about the links between freedom struggles, radical spatial politics, and cultural representation. Gaye Theresa Johnson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies and an affiliate in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles.

We see ourselves as the curators of that historical legacy. Step two, Johnson and Banks explain, involves creating the first and only online archive for independent films featuring and made by women of color. Remember Me. Home News Got a Scoop? This collaborative inter-departmental event is part of the Division of Social Sciences Racial Justice Initiative.

Sign up here. Santa Barbara Studio Artists 24th Annual Open Studios Tour. Big things are afoot for Sol Sisters Rising, the newly formed brainchild of Ingrid Banks, Gaye Theresa Johnson, and Kim Bluitt. The film screens October 10 at UCSB.