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CSSJ Weekly Newsletter
December 2, 2014

 
 
 

Coming up:

Brown bag lunch talk with Prof. Oscar de la Torre

Thursday, December 4, 2014
12:00 PM
Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice
Seminar Room
94 Waterman Street

"Larry and Luis: Using Environmental Knowledge to Fight for Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Amazonia"

Lunch will be provided. Kindly RSVP here: http://goo.gl/forms/DfSSvhJcEi

 
 
 
 

In the news:

Shuttered US cathedral may become slave trade museum as Episcopal Church seeks to unbury past

"'The museum at the shuttered Cathedral of St. John, a church in Rhode Island state where slaves once worshipped, would explore how the church benefited from the trade and helped bring it to an end,' said Bishop Nicholas Knisely of the Diocese of Rhode Island."

Read more in the Times Colonist

(AP Photo/Steven Senne)
 

(AP Photo/Steven Senne)

 
 
 

Beyond the Center:

Assumed to be ‘Black’: The Racial Categorization of African & Caribbean Students

Dr. Shontay Delalue, Assistant Dean of the College, Director of International Student & Visitor Experience

Wednesday, December 3, 12 - 1 p.m.
Seminar will take place in the CSREA Conference Room (Hillel 303), 80 Brown St

Please RSVP as space is limited: csrea@brown.edu

The study being discussed will look at the experiences of students from the African Atlantic Diaspora whose primary way of identifying racially conflicted with the racial categorization of ‘Black’ in the U.S.  Using a critical race theory and racial formation lens, the history of the U.S. Census racial categories and the social definition of ‘Black’ will be explored.

Light refreshments will be provided.