The documentary “The House I Live In” offers a poignant look inside U.S. drug policy and its far-reaching effects. Immediately following the screening, audience members are invited to join an improvisational brainstorm session on racialized mass incarceration & immigration inspired by techniques from Theater of the Oppressed. This participatory activity will be led by distinguished artists, image theater experts and scholars: Bryonn Bain, Lani Guinier, Tim Mitchell, Gerald Torres, and Tricia Rose. 

What I Am Thinking About Now: Professor Matthew Guterl (American Studies, Africana Studies)

In the midst of the Cold War, Josephine Baker was not your typical radical. She lived in a castle. She wore the best clothes.  She operated a Disney-esque theme park. And she adopted a mixed race family.  So what, Guterl has been asking, is so radical about that?  And what does this story matter today?

Brown's first African-American alumnus, Inman Page (class of 1877) led a remarkable career as an educator, following his escape from slavery and his years at Brown. Near the end of his life, in the 1930s, he profoundly influenced a teenage boy who grew up to become the great novelist Ralph Ellison. In 1979, Ellison came to Brown to talk about his mentor and the lasting impact of Brown on all of the students who fell under Page's influence (literally, in Ellison's case).

Brown University professors offer brief commentaries on the racial implications and various aspects of policing practices like Stop and Frisk, before opening the floor for discussion.

Stefano Bloch, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Urban Studies Program and Cogut Center for the Humanities

Nancy Khalek, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Linda Quiquivix, Postdoctoral Fellow in Critical Global Humanities, Cogut Center for the Humanities

Tricia Rose, Director, CSREA

What I Am Thinking About Now: Professor Glenn Loury (Economics) and Patricia Agupusi (Visiting Fellow, International Relations)

What I Am Thinking About Now: Professor Elizabeth Hoover (American Studies)

What I Am Thinking About Now: Professor Eng-Beng Lim (TAPS) 

September 2013 - February 2014

From the criminalization of migrants through deportation to the undocumented and queer intersectionality, this collection of artworks explores different aspects of the immigrant experience. All of the artists in this collection  are part of CultureStr/ke, a national network of professional and emerging artists, social change experts, and creative producers who are advancing progressive change in immigration through cultural organizing. The organization's mission is to work towards a society that recognizes and embraces migration and migrant experiences.

From the criminalization of migrants through deportation to the undocumented and queer intersectionality, this collection of artworks explores different aspects of the immigrant experience.

All of the artists in this collection  are part of CultureStrike, a national network of professional and emerging artists, social change experts, and creative producers who are advancing progressive change in immigration through cultural organizing. The organization's mission is to work towards a society that recognizes and embraces migration and migrant experiences. 

Professors, students, and leaders of nonprofit organizations convened to reflect on the many issues provoked by the killing of Trayvon Martin, Stand Your Ground laws, Stop and Frisk policies, and the connecting, broader ideas about targeting and fearing young black and brown people.