No Images? Click here CSSJ Monthly Newsletter CSSJ Exhibition Opening Reception Friday, September 28, 2018 Unfinished Business: The Long Civil Rights Movement Exhibition and Reception The Civil Rights Movement (The Southern Freedom Movement) was a catalyst for social change in America disrupting the legal system of Jim Crow and racial segregation. It was composed of ordinary Black women, men and children, many of whom placed their lives on the line to fight the laws of racial segregation. In this exhibition we tell the story of the relationship between the Black organizing tradition and the movement. We trace the tradition from the moment of emancipation until the presidential campaigns of Jesse Jackson. It is a story not often told, yet it is a necessary one for our times. Please join us Friday afternoon for a special gallery reception. October Events Radical Monarchs: Centering Girls of Color in Transformative Justice Movements Wednesday, October 3, 2018 6:30pm - 8:00pm Radical Monarchs co-founders, Anayvette Martinez and Marilyn Hollinquest, will explore the concept of Radical Joy and the key role it plays in the Radical Monarch movement. The Radical Monarchs vision is to empower young girls of color so that they step into their collective power, brilliance and leadership in order to make the world a more radical place. Cosponsored by the LGBTQ Center. Lunch Talk with High School CSSJ Intern Junia Janvier: A Life-Altering Summer of Social Justice: A High School Internship at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice 12:00pm Join us for a Lunch Talk with High School senior Junia Janvier. Junia is a part of the Brown-Sophia Royce Research Collaborative. This is a program through which alumnae of Sophia Academy in their junior and senior years of high school are given pre-college support and mentorship by current Brown undergraduate women. This program provides the unique opportunity for highly inquisitive and motivated young women to pursue research in a way that exposes them to curious and studious self-motivated academia before the undergraduate experience. Junia spent the summer helping to shape an upcoming grassroots organizing conference for young activists of color. Where Are the "Three Races"? with Yuko Miki Wednesday, October 10, 2018 12:00pm – 1:30pm Brazil's national identity is imagined as a mixture of the "three races" of Indian, Black, and White. Indians, however, are relegated to a colonial past. In this talk, Yuko Miki questions the widespread idea, perpetuated by many scholars, of indigenous "disappearance" that paved the way for the birth of Latin America's largest black nation. By exploring the interconnected histories of black and indigenous Brazilians after independence, Miki argues that the exclusion and inequality of indigenous and African-descended people became embedded in the very construction of Brazil's remarkably "inclusive" nationhood. To understand the full scope of central themes in Latin American history - race and national identity, unequal citizenship, popular politics, and slavery and abolition - one must engage the histories of both the African diaspora and the indigenous Americas. Co-sponsored by Africana Studies, the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, and Native American and Indigenous Studies at Brown. Brown Family Weekend Events with the CSSJ Unfinished Business: The Long Civil Rights Movement Exhibition and Reception The Civil Rights Movement (The Southern Freedom Movement) was a catalyst for social change in America disrupting the legal system of Jim Crow and racial segregation. It was composed of ordinary Black women, men and children, many of whom placed their lives on the line to fight the laws of racial segregation. In this exhibition we tell the story of the relationship between the Black organizing tradition and the movement. We trace the tradition from the moment of emancipation until the presidential campaigns of Jesse Jackson. It is a story not often told, yet it is a necessary one for our times. Please join us Friday afternoon for a special gallery reception. Slavery & Legacy Walking Tour In the eighteenth century slavery permeated every aspect of social and economic life in Rhode Island. The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice’s Slavery and Legacy walking tour invites guest to learn about the history and legacy of slavery as it pertains to Brown University and the state of Rhode Island. Major stops on this hour-long walking tour includes the Ruth J. Simmons Quadrangle, University Hall, the Slavery Memorial and the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice. Open House at the Center for the Study of Slavery &
Justice For centuries, the institution of slavery pervaded every aspect of life in America and its reverberations are still keenly felt today. We invite you to the Center’s 19th century house for a special reception to meet our faculty, staff and students. While you are at the Center you can learn about student opportunities at the CSSJ, view the exhibition on display in our gallery, Herstory, a stunning glass wall art piece, Rising to Freedom and a symbolic slave garden. Wednesday, October 24, 2018 This paper analyzes a rather rare type of newspaper in imperial Brazil—a self-described “Black” periodical—through the lens of intellectual history. I focus on the "Gallery" that appeared in O Homem, a newspaper in Recife, as a way to think about how such interventions that were about the politics of race and abolition also need to be considered as constitutive of a broader field of trans-Atlantic literary exchange; that the histories of Brazilian slavery and blackness indeed compel us to rethink the terms and forms through which the "illustrious men" genre evolved in the Atlantic world. Co-sponsored by Africana Studies and the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. In the News Yale University: Elena Shih and Andrew Crane on Contemporary Solutions to Human Trafficking Wednesday, September 19, 2018 Photo by Danny Lyon, Courtesy of Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos Brown University News: ‘Unfinished Business’ exhibition at Brown explores the Civil Rights Movement September 27, 2018 *If you would like to submit a poster for advertisement in a future CSSJ newsletter please email slaveryjustice@brown.edu, using “Ad for the next newsletter” in the subject line. All flyers must be submitted as a PDF or JPEG. Postings in the newsletter will be made at the Center’s discretion. |