No Images? Click here CSSJ Newsletter Events November 2, 2018 Save the Date! November 16, 2018 Living Unfinished Business: the Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement, Memory, and Voting Rights Today is a day of conversations connected to the exhibition, Unfinished Business: The Long Civil Rights Movement curated by the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice. Through a series of panels, Living Unfinished Business will feature veterans of the Movement, photographers, community activists, lawyers and scholars to discuss the distinctive legacies of the Movement, the ways in which it is remembered, historicized, and the present day threats to voting rights. Wednesday, November 28, 2018 The study of Brazilian race and slavery in the nineteenth century is too often framed by the structure of abolitionist legislation; first that applied to the cessation of the Atlantic slave trade leading up to 1850, and then to the abolition of slavery itself before the passage of the Golden Law in 1888. Traditional and contemporary scholarship points to a lack of segregationist law as central to understanding Brazil’s post abolition racial hierarchy. Given the comparatively large size of Brazil’s free black population in the first decade of the nineteenth century (free Afro-Brazilians represented a plurality, a larger population than whites or enslaved Africans) my current research examines how state
supported institutions such as orphanages, the police, and the military, alongside regional and national legislation, targeted and controlled the lives of free Afro-Brazilians before and after final abolition. Beyond the Center 50 Years Since '68: The Global and the Local November 1 & 2, 2018 A symposium on the international dimensions of 1968 in collaboration with the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and with generous support from the Office of the President, Brown University. In the News While I am here at VU as a CLUE+ fellow and a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History, I will be working on a major book project tentatively titled Black Critique: Towards An Alternative Genealogy of Critical Thought . The book attempts to reconfigure some of the current scholarship currently operating under the rubric “new histories of capitalism.“ |