Danny Widener

Danny Widener teaches Modern American history at the University of California at San Diego with a focus on expressive culture and political radicalism. He began his educational career at the Echo Park-Silverlake Peoples’ Childcare Center before studying at Berkeley and New York University. He wrote Black Arts West: culture and struggle in postwar Los Angeles, and is the co-editor of Another University is Possible. He is currently completing a book entitled Third Worlds Within: black radicalism and interethnic solidarity in 20th Century America. He supports Tottenham Hotspur.