The Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative (NAISI)is a cross-disciplinary initiative focused on teaching, research and engagement to increase understanding of the cultural traditions, histories, political experiences, and contemporary experiences and knowledges of Native American and Indigenous peoples.
(CSREA) Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America
CSREA’s New Book Talks highlight new and notable works studying race, ethnicity, and indigeneity. They facilitate thought-provoking and critical engagement with emerging scholarship.
Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women’s Survival in Antebellum New Orleans
Emily A. Owens, David and Michelle Ebersman Assistant Professor ofRead More
CSREA - Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America
Sovereignty vs. Subversion: Cold War Immigration Politics and the Metastasis of the US Security State
Rick Baldoz, Associate Professor of American Studies
This talk will explore how the entanglement of US immigration policy and national security imperatives during the early decades of the Cold War. I will also examine how the coercive machinery of the USRead More
Critical Conversations, one of CSREA’s signature discussion series, invites scholars to explore a central topic through the lens of race.
This event gathers scholars of environmental justice to discuss the uneven burdens presented by climate change, linkages between race and urban policy, and how communities are resisting the effects of extractive capitalism.
CSREA is pleased to host a series of professionalization workshops over lunch for graduate students studying race, ethnicity, and indigeneity at Brown.
Improving Academic Writing
Austin Jackson, Professor of the Practice of Nonfiction Writing, Department of English
This moderated conversation brings together faculty and scholars situated in Africana, Latinx, and Asian American Studies to discuss solidarity as a practice in support of diversity and inclusion in higher education.
Tuesday, April 11 from 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library