They Found Another Way to Live: Devising an Else-Where-&-When Beyond Subjection

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Abstract

This paper centers how Black women students at UCLA during 1960s-1970s actualized alternate possibilities in spite of racial marginalization. Thinking alongside Clark’s (1972, p. 178) description of an organizational saga as “a collective understanding of unique accomplishment based on historical exploits of a formal organization,” this work intervenes in the sagas of UCLA’s professed acts of social justice. UCLA has been the site of histories of social change, however, the actors instrumental to this change are rarely highlighted. Thus, I engage in archival recovery to search for the presence and activism of Black women students to surface the otherwise methods of being they employed to disrupt the racial enclosures that they navigated on campus.

Author

• Mary Senyonga, Sacramento State University