# AC Spotlight Series

**Source**: https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/digital-media/video-library/ac-spotlight-series
**Parent**: https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/about/video-library

Begun in 2007, the American Cultures Spotlight Series provides opportunities for the campus community to critically engage in conversations regarding future AC curriculum development around key themes relevant to the AC requirement.

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### [AC Spotlight Series: Chris Dixon](https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/explore/ac-spotlight-series-concepts-classrooms/ac-spotlight-series-chris-dixon)

Dr. Chris Dixon discusses his publication 'Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements'.

### [AC Spotlight Series: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz](https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/archives/past-events/ac-spotlight-series-concepts-classrooms/indigenous-people’s-history-united)

Roxanne Dunbar - Ortiz presents her publication 'An Indigenous People's History of the United States'

### [AC Spotlight Series: Rickey Vincent](https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/explore/ac-spotlight-series-concepts-classrooms/party-music)

Dr. Rickey Vincent presents his publication 'Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers' Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music'.

### [AC Spotlight Series: Fighting Mass Incarceration - James Kilgore](https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/archives/past-events/ac-spotlight-series-concepts-classrooms/fighting-mass-incarceration)

Dr. James Kilgore discusses his latest publication, 'Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of our Time', and the potentials/pitfalls of the present moment in the struggle to end mass incarceration.

### [AC Spotlight Series: The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption - Nikki Jones](https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/archives/past-events/ac-spotlight-series-concepts-classrooms/chosen-ones-black-men-and-politics)

Professor Nikki Jones, in conversation with Clarence Ford, discussed her latest publication, ‘The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption.’