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Book Signing

November 7, 2013 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Bunche Center Authors’ Series PresentsGAYE THERESA JOHNSONSpaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity:Music, Race, and Spatial Entitlement in Los AngelesLibrary & Media Center – Haines Hall 135Professor Johnson is a faculty member in the Department of Black Studies with affiliations in the departments of History and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her areas of expertise are twentieth century U.S. history; race and racism; and cultural history with an emphasis on music. Dr. Johnson’s new book, from the University of California Press, is a cultural history of civil rights and spatial struggles among Black and Brown people in LA. You can follow her on Twitter @LaDoctoraGTJ or visit her website, www.gayetheresajohnson.com/. The event is co-hosted by Robin D. G. Kelley, the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA and a Bunche affiliated faculty member.