Darnell Hunt

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Darnell Hunt
Born1962 (age 61–62)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Education
Occupation(s)UCLA's Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, Sociologist, academic administrator
Employer(s)University of California, Los Angeles

Darnell Hunt (born 1962) is an American sociologist and academic administrator who has been serving as executive vice chancellor and provost of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), since September 2022. At UCLA, he is a professor of sociology and African American studies and the former director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.

Education

Hunt received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in journalism (public relations) from the University of Southern California in 1984 and a Master of Business Administration from Georgetown University in 1988. He received a Master of Arts in 1991 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1994 in sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles.[1][2]

Career

He later[

Kelly Lytle Hernandez. Since July 2017, Hunt has served as the dean of Social Sciences.[1]

Hunt is the author of two books, and the editor of two more books. He has also published an annual report on the lack of diversity in the film industry since 2014.[3] The 2017 report, which was commissioned by the Color of Change, a non-profit civil rights advocacy organization, showed that very few television writers were black.[4] To increase their share, Hunt suggested television producers use the Rooney Rule during their interviewing process.[4]

His first book, Screening the Los Angeles "Riots:" Race, Seeing and Resistance, looks at the way white, black and Hispanic television viewers understood the

O. J. Simpson murder case
.

Hunt subsequently edited two books. His third book, Channeling Blackness: Studies on Television and Race in America, was about the way blacks are portrayed on television. His fourth book, Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities, co-edited with Ana-Christina Ramón, the assistant director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, is a collection of seventeen articles about South Los Angeles and Leimert Park. The Journal of American History published a mixed review by Lawrence B. de Graaf, a History professor at California State University, Fullerton. For de Graaf, "This book should be in any collection on recent African American life and on Los Angeles, but next to more comprehensive historical works." In particular, he criticized the lack of attention paid to blacks who live just outside Los Angeles, or to the black middle class.[7] Reviewing it for The Journal of African American History, John H. Barnhill praised the book, writing "Scholarly excellence characterizes many of the articles." He concluded, "the volume provides a great deal of direction for those seeking to understand the background to and current state of the African American urban experience in the 21st century."[8]

Works

  • Hunt, Darnell M. (1997). Screening the Los Angeles "Riots:" Race, Seeing and Resistance. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
    OCLC 4769452437
    .
  • Hunt, Darnell M. (1999). O.J. Simpson Facts and Fictions: News Rituals in the Construction of Reality. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
    OCLC 797427087
    .
  • Hunt, Darnell M., ed. (2005). Channeling Blackness: Studies on Television and Race in America. New York: Oxford University Press.
    OCLC 637394443
    .
  • Hunt, Darnell M.; Ramón, Ana-Christina, eds. (2010). Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities. New York City: NYU Press.
    OCLC 477268823
    .

References

  1. ^ a b c d "ABOUT THE DEANS". UCLA College. Archived from the original on January 7, 2019. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Darnell Hunt". Department of Sociology. UCLA. Archived from the original on November 15, 2017. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
  3. ^ Morrison, Patt (March 17, 2015). "Darnell Hunt: Hollywood's dismal diversity data explained". The Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved November 21, 2017.
  4. ^ a b Robb, David (November 1, 2017). "New Report Calls On TV Industry To Adopt NFL's "Rooney Rule" To Address Exclusion Of Black Writers & Showrunners". Deadline. Archived from the original on January 18, 2018. Retrieved November 21, 2017.
  5. JSTOR 2655198
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  6. JSTOR 3322777
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  7. JSTOR 41509036
    .
  8. doi:10.5323/jafriamerhist.97.4.0504
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