Monique Mojica, LeAnne Howe, and Jorge Morejón present a public offering of work in progress titled "Side Show Freaks & Circus Injuns," presenting excerpts of the play in process with a discussion moderated by Dr. Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation), Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies, Brown University.

The Center for the Study of Race + Ethnicity in America (CSREA) invites you to an informal, lunchtime conversation with Professor John O. Dabiri (Stanford University) on Friday, November 11 at 12:15 - 1:30 p.m. This event will take place at CSREA, 96 Waterman Street, in room 103.

This discussion presents an opportunity to learn more about his experiences in the fields of Civil, Environmental, and Mechanical Engineering, and talk about challenges faced by historically underrepresented groups (HUGs) in STEM fields.

Please join us on Friday, November 11 at 9:30 - 11:00am for an informal seminar with Gary Okihiro, professor of international and public affairs and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. The discussion will center on Professor Okihiro's recently published book, Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation (2016).

RSVP: [email protected]. Refreshments will be served.

Artworks created by students in "Racial and Ethnic Politics and Policy in America," a Fall 2016 class taught by Professor Yalidy Matos.

Please join us on Tuesday, November 1, 12-1pm for a "What I Am Thinking About Now" presentation from Rolland Murray, Associate Professor of English at Brown University. His talk is titled, "Not Being and Blackness: Percival Everett and the Incorporation of Black Culture."

This talk will explore how carceral power and the techniques of containment were woven into the quotidian geographies of poor and working class Black people on Chicago's South Side. Through and examination of housing, policing, and the production of masculinity, this talk demonstrates how the explosion of Black incarceration rates in the latter 20th century were enabled by the geography of incarceration at the beginning of the century. 

Book signing and light reception to follow. Free and open to the public. 

Cosponsored by the Urban Studies Program.

The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) and the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ) invite you to attend a joint open house in celebration of Family Weekend.