Events By Quarter
Cup of Culture
A Love Song Song for Latasha
Director: Sophia Nahli Allison
Film Screening/Online
Netflix's A Love Song for Latasha is a short film about a tragically short life. Sophia Nahli Allison directed this lightly experimental remembrance of Latasha Harlins, the 15-year-old Black girl who was murdered in 1991 by a convenience store owner who accused her of stealing a bottle of orange juice. The injustice surrounding the shooting death of 15-year-old Latasha Harlins at a South Central Los Angeles store became a flashpoint for the city’s 1992 civil uprising. 2019. 19 min
Race Matters Series
Killing the Black Body
Dr. Dorothy Roberts
Online
Published in 1997, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty, remains a best-selling book on race, gender, and reproductive freedom more than twenty years later. It documents a long history of regulation of Black women’s bodies in the United States, beginning with the legal status of enslaved women as property, and explains its crucial importance to both reproductive and racial politics in America. Today, these devaluing ideologies, laws, and policies have expanded in new guises that help to perpetuate race and gender injustice in the health care, law enforcement, welfare, and foster care systems. At the same time, the rise of an exciting reproductive justice movement has provided a new framework for envisioning a more humane and equitable society. In an era where reproductive freedom is increasingly under assault, understanding and advocating for reproductive justice is more urgent than ever.
Co-sponsors: Center for Black Studies Research, Dept of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies, Hull Chair of Feminist Studies, AS Black Women’s Health Collaborative
Photo credit: Chris Crisman
Cup of Culture
See You Yesterday
Director: Stefon Bristol, Producer: Spike Lee
Film Screening/Online
TW // Police Brutality. Two Brooklyn teenage science prodigies, C.J. Walker and Sebastian Thomas, spend every spare minute working on their latest homemade invention: backpack makeshift time machines to save C.J.'s brother, Calvin, from being wrongfully killed by a police officer. From director Stefon Bristol and producer Spike Lee comes See You Yesterday, a sci-fi adventure grounded in familial love, cultural divides and the universal urge to change the wrongs of the past. 2019. 1 h 27 min
Art Exhibition
Abstractions of Black Citizenship: African American Art from Saint Louis
Dominic Chambers, Damon Davis, Jen Everett, De Nichols, and Katherine Simóne Reynolds
Online
Welcome to the virtual exhibition for Abstractions of Black Citizenship: African American Art from Saint Louis, a group exhibition of works by Dominic Chambers, Damon Davis, Jen Everett, De Nichols, and Katherine Simóne Reynolds, five Black Saint Louis, MO-based artists. Curated by Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud, PhD, this exhibition presents painting, photography, mixed-media, works on paper, sculpture, music, and video. The exhibition runs February 11 - 28, 2021 in partnership with UCSB's Multicultural Center.
Within this online exhibition, there are 54 frames with seven themes, as well as introductory and concluding slides. To fully engage content, aim for at least 25 minutes. You are also welcome to engage within the time that you have available in various ways, such as by theme. For optional engagement, press on the square button at the bottom of the frame to initiate full screen view.
Find the exhibition below or at the following link:
https://mcc.sa.ucsb.edu/node/2435
All images, sounds, and videos of the work are courtesy of each artist. All quotes from artists, unless otherwise noted, are from interviews conducted by the curator in 2020. You can find more about this exhibition – including the research guide (with sources cited through the exhibition), studio visit videos with each artist, and education guides – on the exhibition website.
