Project Ideas for Bachelor of Arts in African American Studies

Oral-history podcast documenting multigenerational civil-rights activism in Oakland

Spatial mapping of redlining’s present-day health impacts in Los Angeles neighborhoods

Digital exhibit on Black California newspapers (1865–1950) using Omeka

Comparative study of Afro-Latinx identity politics in California and New York

Analysis of Hip-Hop pedagogy in Bay-Area K-12 classrooms

Archival recovery of UC alumni who joined the 1964 Freedom Summer

Ethnography of Black student organizations and mental-health advocacy on campus

Curriculum toolkit on Afrofuturism for public-school English departments

GIS visualization of environmental racism near port communities in Long Beach

Critical review of policing reforms after the Watts Rebellion and 1992 LA Uprising

Documentary short profiling Black farmers reviving sustainable agriculture in the Central Valley

Bibliometric analysis of Black feminist scholarship trends (1990–2025)

Policy brief on reparations models piloted at U.S. municipal levels

Interactive timeline of Black queer activism at UC from the 1970s to now

Community art project celebrating Juneteenth in collaboration with local museums

Text-mining project on Marcus Garvey’s speeches versus modern Black Lives Matter discourse

Assessment of Afrocentric social-emotional learning frameworks in charter schools

VR reconstruction of historic West Oakland jazz clubs

Economic impact study of the African American arts corridor in Richmond, CA

Critical media analysis of Black representation in California political advertising