bren brenda steven, what would you teach. >> i teach coreses enslaverry and courses on women's holiday and interracial dynamics. >> hang how you've been at ucla. >> for 26 years. >> how has it changed. >> changed tremendously. has grown in student population, grown in the kind students we have. it's grown the kinds of faculty we have and the kinds of things we focus on, particularly in history department, which is of course where my heart and is my mind is as well. it's been a wonderful time here, though, just seeing the change and being part of it. >> host: you came the year before the l.a. riots. >> guest: i did come the year before the l.a. riots. it was quite a shock to move from texas, where i was, having been born and raised in virginia, and coming here and being part of that. >> host: have you written about that? >> guest: yes i have. i was so impacted wrote a book, about the l.a. riots of 1992. i wrote a book that was published at the university press in 2013. >> host: who was latasha harlan. >> guest: a 15-year-old girl who walked into a liquor market, a grocery store, in marc

bren brenda steven, what would