Lecture Title: "Music and Popular Culture" March 5th, 2009 Mark Q. Sawyer lectures as a part of UCLA's African American Studies Program which seeks to provide students with a comprehensive and multidisciplinary introduction to the crucial sociocultural and social justice issues facing African Americans and their counterparts in other areas of the African diaspora today. Some clips and images may have been blurred or removed to avoid copyright infringement. See all the UCLA African American Studies M114C classes in this series: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E62F19DE82271A15 * See more courses from UCLA: http://www.youtube.com/uclacourses * See more from UCLA's main channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/ucla

Lecture Title: "Radical Egalitarianism" January 15th, 2009 Mark Q. Sawyer lectures as a part of UCLA's African American Studies Program which seeks to provide students with a comprehensive and multidisciplinary introduction to the crucial sociocultural and social justice issues facing African Americans and their counterparts in other areas of the African diaspora today. Some clips and images may have been blurred or removed to avoid copyright infringement. See all the UCLA African American Studies M114C classes in this series: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E62F19DE82271A15 * See more courses from UCLA: http://www.youtube.com/uclacourses * See more from UCLA's main channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/ucla

Lecture Title: "Radical Egalitarianism" January 22nd, 2009 Mark Q. Sawyer lectures as a part of UCLA's African American Studies Program which seeks to provide students with a comprehensive and multidisciplinary introduction to the crucial sociocultural and social justice issues facing African Americans and their counterparts in other areas of the African diaspora today. Some clips and images may have been blurred or removed to avoid copyright infringement. See all the UCLA African American Studies M114C classes in this series: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E62F19DE82271A15 * See more courses from UCLA: http://www.youtube.com/uclacourses * See more from UCLA's main channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/ucla

Mark Naison is a Professor of African-American Studies and History at Fordham University and Director of Fordham's Urban Studies Program. He is the author of three books and over 100 articles on African-American History, urban history, and the history of sports. His most recent book White Boy: A Memoir, published in the Spring of 2002, was reviewed in the New York Times, the Nation and the Chronicle of Higher Education and was the subject of feature stories on Black Entertainment Television, New York One News and the Tavis Smiley show on National Public Radio. One of his most popular courses at Fordham, “From Rock and Roll to Hip Hop: Urban Youth Cultures in Post War America" has also received media attention, becoming the subject of stories on National Public Radio, Bronx Net, and WFUV. His most recent course, “Feeling the Funk: Research Seminar on Music of the African Diaspora" focuses on Latin and Caribbean traditions on American Popular Music.

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AFRO 005 Framing Question 5-1: ————— Please note that many of the required books (as well as many of the books mentioned during lecture) for AFRO 005 may be purchased at Sankofa Bookstore (links below). The required books for this course are as follows: Armah, Ayi Kwei, “The Eloquence of the Scribes” Black, Daniel P., “The Coming” Robinson, Cedric J., “Black Movements in America” : https://www.events.sankofa.com/blank-2/black-movements-in-america Smallwood, Arwin, Ed., “The Atlas of African-American History and Politics” Soyinka, Wole, “Of Africa” wa Thiongo, Ngugi, “Something Torn and New”: https://www.events.sankofa.com/blank-2/something-torn-and-new-an-african-renaissance

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Lecture 1 of Clay Carson's Introduction to African-American History Course (HIST 166) concentrating on the Modern Freedom Struggle (Fall 2007). Topics in this lecture include a course introduction and W.E.B. Du Bois. Recorded September 25, 2007 at Stanford University. This course introduces the viewer to African-American history, with particular emphasis on the political thought and protest movements of the period after 1930, focusing on selected individuals who have shaped and been shaped by modern African-American struggles for freedom and justice. Clayborne Carson is a professor in the History Department at Stanford University. Complete playlist for the course: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=40E11D5C66CAC48C Course syllabus: http://www.stanford.edu/~ccarson/History/Syllabus%20Fall%202007b.pdf More on Clayborne Carson: http://www.stanford.edu/~ccarson/ Stanford University channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/stanford

Lecture Title: "Black Political Thought Diversity and Continuity" January 8th, 2009 Mark Q. Sawyer lectures as a part of UCLA's African American Studies Program which seeks to provide students with a comprehensive and multidisciplinary introduction to the crucial sociocultural and social justice issues facing African Americans and their counterparts in other areas of the African diaspora today. Some clips and images may have been blurred or removed to avoid copyright infringement. * See all the UCLA African American Studies M114C classes in this series: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E62F19DE82271A15 * See more courses from UCLA: http://www.youtube.com/uclacourses * See more from UCLA's main channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/ucla

Lecture Title: "Black Political Thought Diversity and Continuity" January 8th, 2009 Mark Q. Sawyer lectures as a part of UCLA's African American Studies Program which seeks to provide students with a comprehensive and multidisciplinary introduction to the crucial sociocultural and social justice issues facing African Americans and their counterparts in other areas of the African diaspora today. Some clips and images may have been blurred or removed to avoid copyright infringement. * See all the UCLA African American Studies M114C classes in this series: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E62F19DE82271A15 * See more courses from UCLA: http://www.youtube.com/uclacourses * See more from UCLA's main channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/ucla