Black women’s imprisonment in the South during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was central to the development of carceral capitalism and consolidated normative conceptions of race, gender, and sexuality. This talk will examine how the criminalization of black women shaped the development of modern political, economic, and cultural life under Jim Crow, while also considering women’s resistance and refusal in southern prisons as practices of black radicalism and abolitionist feminism.

Black women’s imprisonment in the South during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was central to the development of carceral capitalism and consolidated normative conceptions of race, gender, and sexuality. This talk will examine how the criminalization of black women shaped the development of modern political, economic, and cultural life under Jim Crow, while also considering women’s resistance and refusal in southern prisons as practices of black radicalism and abolitionist feminism.

CSREA is launching a race and ethnicity focussed graduate student professionalization and development series to support graduate student research on race and ethnicity, build research community across disciplines and support our graduate student professional development.

We invite graduate students to send their RSVPs to [email protected] for any one or all of the seminars listed below. Seats are limited.

Please join us on Wednesday, February 8, 12-1pm for a "What I Am Thinking About Now" presentation from Mariaelena Huambachano, Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow, CSREA and the Department of American Studies and Ethnic Studies. Her talk is titled, "The 'Khipu Model': The Development of an Indigenous Research Framework."

RSVP to [email protected]. Snacks and caffeine will be provided.

In this public lecture, scholar, educator, and activist Jeanine Staples will share her groundbreaking research on the five toxic lover identities defensively constructed among marginalized women who have suffered from unmediated relational and social t/Terrors. In her presentation, Dr. Staples will illuminate the complex sociocultural and socioemotional consequences of these identities and offer a solution that can salvage not only the souls and soma of these women, but also the social and emotional justice movements they have founded and advance for the benefit of all humankind.

CSREA is launching a race and ethnicity focussed graduate student professionalization and development series to support graduate student research on race and ethnicity, build research community across disciplines and support our graduate student professional development.

We invite graduate students to send their RSVPs to [email protected] for any one or all of the seminars listed below. Seats are limited.

A Teach-In about Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline and the resistance movement #NoDAPL. Hosted by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA).

Friday, December 9, 2016
12:15pm - 1:45pm
MacMillan Hall, Room 115
167 Thayer Street, Providence RI 02912

Please join us on Tuesday, November 29, 12-1pm for a "What I Am Thinking About Now" presentation from Matthew Reilly, Visiting Assistant Professor, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World and Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University. His talk is titled, "'White Slaves'" in the Caribbean?: Whiteness and the Racialized (Re)Construction of History."