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Director
NameTitleEmail
Jared SextonAssociate Professorjcsexton@uci.edu
Core Faculty
NameTitleEmail
Nahum ChandlerAssociate Professor and Undergraduate Directorn.d.chandler@uci.edu
Bridget R. CooksAssociate Professor
Published Books
b.cooks@uci.edu
Douglas HaynesAssociate Professor
Published Books
dhaynes@uci.edu
Ulysses JenkinsProfessorujenkins@uci.edu
Victoria E. JohnsonAssociate Professor
Published Books
v.e.johnson@uci.edu
Arlene KeizerAssociate Professorakeizer@uci.edu
R. RadhakrishnanProfessor
Published Books
rradhakr@uci.edu
Katherine TateProfessorktate@uci.edu
Darryl TaylorAssociate Professortaylord@uci.edu
Frank B. WildersonProfessor
Published Books
fwilders@uci.edu
Tiffany Willoughby-HerardAssistant Professortwilloug@uci.edu
Affiliated Faculty
NameTitleEmail
Alex BoruckiAssistant Professoraborucki@uci.edu
Sohail DaulatzaiAssociate Professor
Published Books
sdaulatz@uci.edu
Sora HanAssistant Professorsora.han@uci.edu
Jessica MillwardAssistant Professormillward@uci.edu
Belinda RobnettProfessorbrobnett@uci.edu
Sheron WrayAssistant Professorsheron.wray@uci.edu

 


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Quotations from our faculty:

"Finally, while Do The Right Thing is not overtly about music or musicians, it is Spike Lee's most thoroughly musical film--a film which posits rap music and rap style as commercially embraceable by the mainstream although inherently politically oppositional. For Lee, black musical production reflects black history and black politics--through popular musical and aesthetic styles--which can be produced, marketed, and sold to a mass audience through cinema."
-Vicky Johnson, "Polyphony and Cultural Expression: Interpreting Musical Traditions in Do The Right Thing," Film Quarterly 42.2 (Winter 1993-94): 18-29; and Spike Lee's 'Do The Right Thing,'ed. Mark A. Reid


"I have always thought of theory in its broadest, 'universal' meaning as being both worldly and out of sync with the world. Theory can be legitimately worldly only if it states and elaborates the conditions of its non-acceptance of the world. To put it differently, theory cannot be an acquiescence in the status quo. With one foot in and one foot out, theory has to straddle the punishing and rippling givenness of the world and the utopian-transcendent urge to image otherwise."
-Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, Theory in an Uneven World


"The ethos of slavery admits no legitimate black self-defense, recognizes no legitimate assertions of black self-possession, privacy, or autonomy. A permanent state of theft, seizure, and abduction orders the affairs of the captive community and its progeny. Structural vulnerability to appropriation, perpetual and involuntary openness, including all the wanton uses of the body, should be understood as the paradigmatic conditions of black existence in the Americas, the defining characteristics of New World
anti-blackness."

-Jared Sexton, "Racial Profiling and the Societies of Control" in Terror in the Household of the American Archipelago, ed. Joy James


"Republicanism [the point of view that Americans are not ruthless individualists but an organic whole collectively engaged in the pursuit of the common good]
presents a problem to African Americans since their race precluded them from membership in the community as it was founded."
 
Katherine Tate, Black Faces in the Mirror, African Americans and Their Representatives in the U.S. Congress (Princeton Univ. Press, 2003), p. 132.

 


Recent Publications

2012
Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America
2012
A Grain of Wheat
2011
Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum
2011
Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir
2008
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid
2008
Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity

(more publications)