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Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies in the United States 197 courage scholarly activity on people of African descent and to provide a framework to increase collaborative and interdisciplinary study of the African Diaspora.” 18 Year One of the Project focused on “Race, Culture and Citizenship”; Year Two concentrated on “Changing Constructions of the Black Middle Class”; and Year Three on “Race and Science.” Several activities were carried on across all three years of the project, which began in 1996–97. The project sponsored an annual colloquium series and conference related to the specific topic for each year’s projects, as well as travel grants, interactive media collaboration, interdepartmental course development, and collaborative programming in the Los Angeles area. In 1996–97 the grant sponsored a conference “Race, Class and Citizenship” in Western Europe and the United States. In spring 1998 the conference was “‘Put Your Hands Together’: Representation, Interpretation, and Black Spirituality,” which brought UCLA faculty and Los Angeles religious institutions together for discussions. Scholars presented research on “Black Religious Practices in the African Diaspora.” The “Power Moves Hip-Hop” conference sponsored in May 1999 fostered dialogue among academics in critical theory and Ethnomusicology; music executives; and music performers about the creation of new forms of expression, and hiphop’s role as a cultural and political voice for young people. The grant provided support for faculty awards for course development and travel, as well as student awards for research and travel. The grant from Ford was to be allocated over three years; funding support also came from UCLA. The project used information technology innovatively as an integral part of all activities. One of the prominent features of the grant was the requirement that graduate students create Web sites as part of their participation. Co-Principal Investigators Valerie Smith and Marcyliena Morgan required their graduate students to create Web sites on which to locate their research. This work was being done in 1996–97 when Web-based technology was relatively new to most departments and certainly to most African American Studies programs around the country. The CSADP also collaborated with local and international groups. Working with a scholar from England, the Project cosponsored a scholarly symposium in October 1998
198 Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies in the United States “Rhapsodies in Blax: The Blaxploitation Movement and the Harlem Renaissance” in conjunction with an exhibition on the Harlem Renaissance at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It has worked with KAOS Network, a Los Angeles broadcaster and corporate sponsor of a program that exposes urban youth to computer and advanced media technology. This project reflected the importance of Cultural Studies in the humanities, and the growing interest in specific cultural innovation within Black communities while reaching out for a broader understanding of forces shaping communities of African descent transnationally. Research was explored in twenty-five different topics including gender and identity, immigration, youth, culture, and foodways. The Center for African American Studies at the University of California Los Angeles Founded in 1969, the Center for African American Studies (CAAS) 19 is one of the leading research units in the field in the nation. It has an elaborate administrative structure with significant support from the University and has the capacity to raise considerable external support through research and development activities. CAAS has also made productive use of the creation, in 1972, of the Institute of American Cultures, which “promotes the development of Ethnic Studies at UCLA by providing a structure for coordination of the four Ethnic Studies centers on campus.” 20 The University has continued to support CAAS evolution and development, and the Center has reached the point where departmental status is at least a possibility.Its research,faculty,and curriculum at the graduate and undergraduate levels are clearly among the strongest in the nation. At the same time, however, it contends with ongoing problems related to leadership of the Center, faculty stability, and the intellectual, political, and administrative demands associated with managing such a complex academic enterprise. The political issues surrounding attacks on affirmative action within the state of California by one of the University’s own Regents,Ward Connerly, an African American businessman,poses perhaps the most serious threat in reducing the size of the African American student population attending the University.
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