TImeless Film Series @ SFSU!!!

Afro-Latin@ Panel at SFSU

Post here if you attended the Afro-Latin@ Studies Panel in the College of Ethnic Studies at SFSU on Tuesday, April 20 from 2pm to 4pm. The participants included Professor Miriam Jimenez, Professor Juan Flores, Professor Nancy Mirabal and Professor Dawn-Elissa Fischer. It was a lively discussion!

((Pictured Below: Professor Roberto Rivera-- a SFSU Strike Veteran and professor of Latin@ Studies @ SFSU-- comments on the discussion.))

Ise Lyfe @ SFSU & Berkeley!!

Ise Lyfe blessed the SFSU campus with his "Is Everybody Stupid" lecture concerning hiphop and politics. Check out his new book PISTOLS &PRAYERS, or post up if you caught one if his live shows on tour.

March 4 @ SFSU

Chuck D & Dr. Gaye Johnson @ SFSU!

Hiphop pioneer Chuck D and UCSB Black Studies professor Dr. Gaye Johnson conversed with students on the topics of art, technology, education and activism on Thursday, February 4 at 11am in Jack Adams Hall of the Cesar Chavez Student Center at San Francisco State University. Being that SFSU is the birthplace of Black Studies in US universities and that SFSU still hosts the only College of Ethnic Studies, the event was slotted as a 'sort of homecoming' for those who position Hiphop as part of the larger Black Studies and Ethnic Studies movements.

This event was organized by the Black Student Union with support from the Department of Africana Studies and the College of Ethnic Studies at SFSU.

Math Raps and Other Issues in Hiphop Education

Professor Mark Anthony Neal and I joined Jean Feraca on Wisconsin Public Radio's Here on Earth show on September 23, 2009 to discuss teaching through hiphop. Alex Kajitani, a public school teacher from San Diego, began the discussion by describing his efforts to incorporate his rap musical productions as an educational tool in classrooms. Other math rappers called in, such as Mrs. D (aka Sharon Danziger) from St. Louis. Our conversation began as a discussion defending the use of hiphop as part of a culturally relevant curriculum and turned into a fun-filled cipher, as callers highlighted key concepts in hiphop education, from multiplication to multiple intelligences. Download the mp3 to listen.

Click here to view DEF PROF PICKS concerning hiphop and education.

eBLACK STUDIES WORKSHOP 2009!!!

The eBlack Studies Cooperative Research Network met for the second time in Savannah , Georgia at Savannah State University (SSU) under the outstanding leadership of Dr. Ronald Bailey and other SSU faculty. Some of the topics engaged include cyberorganizing, international distance learning collaborations, the use of information technologies in instructional and research design, and issues associated with archiving, library science and digitization initiatives. An important aspect of this convening is the representation of HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) in the eBlack Studies movement. This eBlack Studies network first met in 2008 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with generous support from NCBS and the Ford Foundation. A link to the first workshop that includes the eBlack Studies Manifesto and reading resources may be found at http://eblackstudies.org/workshop. Below is a photograph from the 2008 eBlack Studies Workshop.

((photograph above by Dr. Ron Bailey on Dr. Jill Humphries's camera))

((photograph above facilitated by Dr. Abdul Akalimat))