2020 was a year marked by widespread mass protest around the world following the murder of George Floyd on May 25th. Floyd’s death symbolized centuries of anti-Black racism and reignited resistance against the many legacies of racial slavery. Around the world statues and memorials dedicated to key players and memories of this history were toppled, […]
"Hauntings, Refusals, and Fugitive Moments: Black Life and Everyday Disruptions of Slavery and Empire in Cuba" - Keynote Lecture with Professor Aisha Finch Atlantic history has been characterized by relentless rebellions, uprisings, and challenges to racial slavery exploited and coerced labor, and colonial rule. The subversion of work in slavery-based and colonial contexts ranged from […]
Dr. Michael Sawyer, Assistant Professor in the Program in Race, Ethnicity, & Migration Studies at Colorado College, will give a talk entitled “The Threshold of the Door of (No) Return”. Dr. Sawyer is the author of two books, An Africana Philosophy of Temporality: Homo Liminalis and Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X. The talk will […]
In this moment of deep crisis and social upheaval in our country, the time is ripe to look closer at the reality facing our most vulnerable citizens. More than half a million Americans are released from prison every year, and they join a population of twenty million people who live with a felony record. While […]
Please join us to hear Professor Deborah Thomas (University of Pennsylvania) speak about her current work and its implications for a decolonized anthropology. Prof. Thomas is a leading scholar of race, gender, and violence in the context of post-colonial state formation. A specialist in the Caribbean region, Prof. Thomas’s work interrogates how new class economies, ideologies of belonging, […]
This webinar will feature Professor Íris Kantor from the University of São Paulo discussing "The History of Cartography and the Transatlantic Slave Trade". Register for this event here.
The General Order No 3 stated: “all slaves are free … this involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves.” This was the order read in Galveston. Texas on June 19th 1863. The order emancipated the enslaved in Texas but did not produce equality. Today 158 years […]
Inspired by an expedition into the multidimensional realms of Octavia E. Butler’s archives, writer Porsha Olayiwola and visual artist Dara Bayer explore patterns in the development of the individual and the collective. Butler, the first Black woman to win the Hugo Literary Award for science fiction, questions the cycle of self and spirit. Bayer and […]
The Center of the Study of Slavery & Justice invites everyone to join us for the exhibition opening reception of Racial Slavery, Marronage, and Freedom: A 10th Anniversary Retrospective featuring artists Edouard Duval-Carrié, Jess Hill, and Rénold Laurent. This retrospective exhibition, along with an accompanying catalog, is an integral part of the 10th anniversary of the CSSJ. Speaking remarks for […]
Join artists Edouard Duval-Carrié, Jess Hill, and Rénold Laurent featured in the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice’s 10th-anniversary retrospective exhibition Racial Slavery, Marronage, and Freedom in a discussion about the exhibition, their creative processes, and their connections to the Center. The artist talk will be held at Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center, 75 Waterman […]
