In this presentation, Akua Naru will discuss her work on The Keeper Project, a multi-media archive that chronicles the role of Black women in the creation and evolution of hip-hop music and culture.
Akua Naru is a Hip Hop artist, producer, activist, and scholar. She is currently a Race and Media Fellow as well as Artist-in-Residence at the Center for the Study of Race andRead More
Please join us for a “What I Am Thinking About Now” presentation by Samuel Zipp, Associate Professor of American Studies and Urban Studies at Brown University.
“Our Imperialisms at Home: Wendell Willkie on Race and the World at Midcentury”
Wendell Willkie’s much-watched trip around theRead More
This talk traces the focus on unconscious cognition (in the form of implicit bias, racial ideology, and volition) as an explanation for the tenacity of racism in the post-Civil Rights era to early critiques of the practice-centered account of institutional racism. With this focus, political resistance to racism has been figured as a twin project of getting people to see that their perceptionRead More
Location: Hawai’i Convention Center, Ballroom C Session Submission Type: Non-Paper Session: Dialogue Format
Abstract
In 1994, Tricia Rose published the award-winning Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. Notable for its pioneering and critical engagement with theRead More
1968: Unearthing the Linked Narratives of Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, and Their Discontents
This talk by distinguished legal scholar and policy leader, Kimberlé Crenshaw will begin with what should be a puzzling convergence. How is it that after five years of a grassroots uprising against anti-Black police violence, and after eight years of a BlackRead More
Please join us for a “What I Am Thinking About Now” presentation by Scott Poulson-Bryant, Visiting Scholar in Race and Ethnicity, Brown University and Assistant Professor of English, Fordham University.
“The Black Version: Rac(e)ing Popular Culture in the 1970s” ThisRead More
We invite alumni, students, and families to visit CSREA for a reception and open house. Enjoy light refreshments, learn about our programs and initiatives, and view our new exhibit, titled Resilience, which features work from 26 artists. Read More
Please join us for a “What I Am Thinking About Now” presentation by Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brown University and an affiliated faculty with the American Bar Foundation in Chicago, IL.
“Policing and the Public Theater of Racial Degradation”
Terry v. Ohio,Read More
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
