Past Events

Lyrics Workshop with Hip Hop Artist Akua Naru

Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA)
, Room 103

We invite students to register for a lyrics workshop with Akua Naru, hip hop artist and CSREA Artist-in-Residence (Fall 2019). Akua will speak about her writing process and will survey other rap lyric writers to analyze various techniques.

Registration is required with only 15 spots available. Registration opens on Thursday, September 26Read More

HUGs + STEM Lunchtime Conversation: Kristala Prather, MIT

Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA)
, Room 103

Please join us for a HUGs + STEM Lunchtime Conversation with Kristala L. J. Prather, Arthur D. Little Professor of Chemical Engineering and MacVicar Faculty Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

On Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Dr. Prather will be at CSREA for an informal lunchtime conversation about women and people of color in STEMRead More

Research Seminar with Micah Salkind, “Interdisciplinary by Design: Engaging Multiple Methodologies in Dissertation Research and First Book Writing”

Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA)
, Room 103

Dr. Micah Salkind, author of Do You Remember House? Chicago’s Queer of Color Undergrounds (Oxford University Press, 2019) will discuss some of the challenges and opportunities posed by using multiple research methods, including performance ethnography, oral history, and archival research, as well as the promise and peril of writing for multiple academicRead More

Book Launch: Micah E. Salkind, “Do You Remember House?: Chicago’s Queer of Color Undergrounds”

CSREA and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage
John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities & Cultural Heritage

Featuring the author: Dr. Micah Salkind, Special Projects Manager for The City of Providence Department of Art, Culture + Tourism, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Humanities in the Department of American Studies at Brown University

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Concert: Hip Hop artist Akua Naru + Live Band

Churchill House
, Bass Performing Arts Space

Join us for a special closing concert following the end of the CSREA conference “R-E-S-P-E-C-T-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y: Black Women’s Studies Since Righteous DiscontentRead More

“R-E-S-P-E-C-T-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y: Black Women’s Studies since ‘Righteous Discontent’” Conference

CSREA and the Workshop for WOC Feminisms at Brown.
Pembroke Hall
, Room 305

Download a complete agenda.

Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920 by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham impacted a wide range of disciplines and areas, among them, gender and sexualityRead More

Opening Plenary for “R-E-S-P-E-C-T-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y: Black Women’s Studies since ‘Righteous Discontent’” Conference

CSREA and the Workshop for WOC Feminisms at Brown.
List Art Building
, Room 120

Download a complete agenda.

Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920 by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham impacted a wide range of disciplines and areas, among them, gender and sexualityRead More

Welcome Reception and Exhibit Opening: “Resilience”

Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA)
Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA)

Join us as we celebrate the new academic year! Enjoy light refreshments, learn more about our programs and initiatives, and view our new multi-artist exhibit titled Resilience.

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Free and open to the public. 

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Remembering Toni Morrison: A Reflection and Celebration

The Department of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre and The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA)
155 Angell St., Providence, RI

Join The Department of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre and the CSREA for an afternoon of reflection and celebration of the life and works of Toni Morrison. Read More

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