Black Studies - BA

The first Black Studies Department in the University of California system, UCSB Black Studies was founded in 1969 in response to student protests. Student activists envisioned Black Studies as “an important expression of the hopes and creative expression of Black people” and the keystone of a larger Black Freedom movement, declaring “Black studies represents an individual and community need, the one inseparable from the other.” UCSB Black Studies centers social justice as well as intellectual rigor in our courses. As a student in the program, you’ll learn from faculty in multiple disciplines including History, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Political Science, Performance Studies, and Comparative Literature. We demand intersectional justice by examining how gender, sexuality, class, religion, nationality, and disability shape Black lives globally. The department brings together scholars studying Black lives in the United States, the Caribbean, South America, and Europe as well as on the African continent, fostering a transnational understanding of race, place, gender, and freedom.

• Law

• Education

• Nonprofit organizations

• Law

• Social Work

• Education

• NBCUniversal

• UC Berkeley

• Trauma Informed LA

• Our Department was established after twelve Black students barricaded themselves inside North Hall demanding campus-wide change.

• Global Studies

• Comparative Literature

• Anthropology

• Feminist Studies

• Education

• Environmental Justice

• Political Science

• Sociology

• Caribbean and Latin America

• Environmental justice

• Black LGBT community

• Reproductive justice

• Urban spaces

• Policing and abolition

• Black radical tradition

• Black feminisms

• Digital studies

https://www.blackstudies.ucsb.edu/

https://cbsr.ucsb.edu/