Property Tax as a Legacy of Cotton, Slavery, and Segregation: Larry Menefee and Prof. Mills Thornton

Thursday, October 2nd, 2014
5:30 PM
**LOCATION CHANGE**
CSSJ Seminar Room
94 Waterman Street

Free and open to the public

Claims by school children currently pending in federal court contend that the property tax system in Alabama shelters agriculture and timberland thus denying adequate funding for public education. This tax policy intentionally restricts educational opportunities for students so as to limit labor mobility in order to maintain a surplus of labor for agricultural work. This policy also protects the property owner's capital from taxation. Larry Menefee, one of the attorneys handling the case, and J. Mills Thornton, a historian who testified as an expert witness at trial, will discuss the history of taxation and the case. 

Book Talk & Reception: From the Revolution in the Tropics to Imagined Landscapes: The Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié

Monday, October 6, 2014
7:00 PM
94 Waterman Street, Gallery

Free and open to the public.

Anthony Bogues and Edouard Duval-Carrié will discuss the newly published book, From the Revolution in the Tropics to Imagined Landscapes: The Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié. Join us for a book reception in the CSSJ gallery. Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing.

From the Revolution in the Tropics to Imagined Landscapes: The Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié is a 200 page monograph on the work of Edouard Duval-Carrié.  Edited by Anthony Bogues, it includes an interview with the artist and essays by Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs, Tobias Ostrander; art historian Carlo A. Célius; and Anthony Bogues, Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences and Critical Theory and Director of the Center of Slavery and Justice at Brown University. This book explores the paintings and sculptural work of Duval-Carrié in relation to the history of Haitian art and international contemporary art practices.  

Objecting to Race, Professor Anthony Alfieri

Tuesday, October 7th, 2014
4 PM
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space
Churchill House
155 Angell Street

Co-sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies and CSSJ.

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