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John A. Powell (born 1947) is an American law professor. He leads the UC Berkeley Othering & Belonging Institute [1] (formerly known as Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society [2]) and holds the Robert D. Haas Chancellor's Chair in Equity and Inclusion, Professor of Law and Professor of African American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
In 1962, a group of graduate and law students at UC Berkeley started a reading group with the goal of educating themselves and their community about African and African American history. [2] The founding members were Donald Warden, Donald Hopkins, Otho Green, and Henry Ramsey. [2]
Jones left the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2013 to join the department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. [10] Following the Killing of Philando Castile, Jones collaborated with Raymond on a three-year project to help police develop better communication methods. [12]
Barbara T. Christian (December 12, 1943 – June 25, 2000) was an American author and professor of African-American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.Among several books, and more than 100 published articles, Christian was best known for the 1980 study Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition.
In April 1968, the Afro-American Studies Union (AASU) at University of California, Berkeley submitted a proposal to institute a Black Studies Program. The proposal was passed around the administration, from Chancellor Roger Heyn to professors to the Dean of the College of Letters and Sciences, Walker Knight.
Black studies or Africana studies (with nationally specific terms, such as African American studies and Black Canadian studies), is an interdisciplinary academic field that primarily focuses on the study of the history, culture, and politics of the peoples of the African diaspora and Africa.
[1] [2] She was president of the American Educational Research Association in 2021–22. Previously she held several named professorships, including the Birgeneau Chair in Educational Disparities and the H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Chair of African-American Studies at UC Berkeley , [ 3 ] where she also served as the vice-chancellor of equity ...
Carol B. Stack (born 1940) [1] is an Urban American anthropologist who specialized in studies of African American networks, minority women, and youth. Stack has taken a strong role in several social sciences, and is Professor Emerita of Education in the Graduate School of Education at University of California, Berkeley.