Please join us for a reading, discussion, and book signing with Martín Espada, celebrated poet and Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He will be reading from his latest collection of poems, Vivas to Those Who Have Failed.

As the 2016 presidential election enters the final stage, race continues to be a major theme of the campaign. Nationally recognized scholars of race and politics Tricia Rose and James Morone will discuss the implications of race in the context of the presidential campaign and the longer term political consequences.

Presented by the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy.

We've moved! We're celebrating our new home and a new year with an open house on Thursday, September 8.  

We will also be opening our 2016-2017 exhibit: Rising/Uprising in Baltimore: A Beautiful Ghetto by Photographer, Devin Allen.

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Free and open to the public. Please contact us to make arrangements for wheelchair access. 

Please join us on Tuesday, April 26 at 12 - 1pm for a "What I Am Thinking About Now" presentation from Elena Shih, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies, and Faculty Fellow at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Her talk is titled: "Transnational Racial Formations of Freedom: Civilian Vigilantism, Ethical Consumption, and Global Human Trafficking Rescue"

In his new book The Fight to Vote, Waldman tell the story of the struggle to win a meaningful right to participate in American democracy. It is a story of politics as well as social movements. Because it spans the whole 240 years of American history, it uses widely disparate sets of sources. From the Founding-era documents ... to the archives of the women's suffrage and African American civil rights movement ... to today's court pleadings, the story is accessible to all students. Remarkably, so much of it is now available online -- much more so than just two years ago, when Waldman wrote The Second Amendment: A Biography.

In his new book, The Fight to Vote, Waldman takes a succinct and comprehensive look at a crucial American struggle: the drive to define and defend government based on “the consent of the governed,” offering a current, readable history of voting rights in the United States. Waldman traces the full story from the Founders’ debates to today’s challenges: a wave of restrictive voting laws, partisan gerrymanders, and the flood of campaign money unleashed by Citizens United. Amid this topsy-turvy election season, Waldman’s book is a needed reminder that voting rights have never been – and are still not – a guarantee.

The Center for the Study of Race + Ethnicity in America (CSREA) invites you to an informal, lunchtime conversation with Jill Tarter, Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI Research at the SETI Institute, on Wednesday, April 20 at 12-1 p.m. This discussion presents an opportunity to learn more about her experiences searching for evidence of technological civilizations beyond Earth, and ask questions about challenges faced by women in STEM fields.

This two day conference is part of the Pembroke Center's four-year research initiative, "Seeing War Differently: Rethinking the Subject(s) of Warfare."
Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Anthropology, English, and History.

 Friday April 15- 1:45pm-5:30pm
Saturday April 16- 9am-4:30pm
Pembroke Hall 305
172 Meeting Street, Providence

Please see the Pembroke Center website for a detailed schedule.

Please join us on Friday, April 15 for a research seminar and dialogue with Professor Kyla Wazana Tompkins and Professor Elizabeth Hoover titled “The Whiteness of Food Movements”.