Wed
Mar 2
2016 Imminent Questions Speaker: Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad
3 – 5pm / UC San Diego Center for the Humanities, Ethnic Studies
Department 25th Anniversary Committee, Literature Department,
History Department, The Library, Cross-Cultural Center,
Black Resource Center, the Black Studies Minor, and the Office
of the Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. /
Price Center Ballroom East • FREE RSVP
Dr. Muhammad is the author of The Condemnation of Blackness:
Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, published
by Harvard University Press. The Condemnation of Blackness won
the American Studies Association John Hope Franklin Publication Prize,
which is awarded annually to the best published book in American studies.
The book is notable for its lengthy discussion of the role of the social
sciences – and of black and white social scientists – in shaping and
sanctifying racial “data,” with terrible consequences for African Americans.
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Thu
Mar 3
Noura Mint Seymali Concert
8pm / ArtPower!; Co-Sponsors: UCSD Women's Center, African and
African-American Studies Research Center / UC San Diego Price
Center East Ballroom • Regular: $30; Student: $12
Mauritanian musician Noura Mint Seymali, an African griotte
trained by her grandmother, will perform traditional and
contemporary music of the Sahel, followed by a Q and A.
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Thu
Mar 3
21st Annual Diversity Awards Program
2 – 3:30pm / Equal Opportunity/Staff Affirmative Action /
Price Center Ballrooms West • FREE
This event will honor those that have made outstanding contributions
to equal opportunity, affirmative action and diversity at UC San Diego
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Thu
Mar 4
Hallowed Ground: The Douglas Hotel and the Creole Palace, San Diego, 1924 - 1984
12 – 1pm / UC San Diego Library, Black History Month Committee /
Seuss Room, Geisel Library • FREE
This event is open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Hosted by the UC San Diego Library and Black History Month Committee
Join us for a lecture and film screening with Michael Austin, an adjunct
professor in Black Studies at San Diego City College. He a historian
who is passionate about local history and has done extensive work on
African American Heritage in San Diego and the Douglas Hotel in particular.
The Douglas Hotel, known as the “Harlem of the West,” included the Creole
Palace nightclub where black stage and screen stars performed.
During the era of segregation, the Douglas Hotel was the only
major downtown hotel in San Diego to provide services to black visitors.
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