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Vidéos des séminaires | Premier cycle
Stephanie Jones-Rogers | Slavery’s Abolition: Dark and Bittersweet
By Stephanie Jones-Rogers Slavery was a system created and sustained by a series of robberies. Such acts were committed not just by individuals but also by the government, at the state and federal level. Yes, the theft of people, their… Continue Reading
Maeve Glass | Record Keepers: Learning from Histories of Abolition
By Maeve Glass “You white women speak here of rights. I speak of wrongs.” — Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1866 In recent years, a new history of abolition has come to the foreground, one that promises to transform how we… Continue Reading
Dread Scott | Slave Rebellion Reenactment
Dread Scott
Dread Scott makes revolutionary art to propel history forward. His work is exhibited across the US and internationally. In 1989, his art became the center of national controversy over its transgressive use of the American flag, while he was a… Continue Reading
Bernard Harcourt | The Counterrevolution: Governing Our New Internal Enemies
Bernard Harcourt | Mayor De Blasio’s Police Strategy Has Always Been Racist
Stephanie Jones-Rogers
Stephanie Jones-Rogers’s research focuses primarily upon gender and American slavery, but she is equally fascinated with colonial and 19th century legal and economic history, especially as it pertains to women, systems of bondage, and the slave trade. Her first book,… Continue Reading
Ghislaine Pagès | “How much time do you want for your progress?”
By Ghislaine Pagès I began writing this in a moment of reflection, thinking about the stories of police violence that have gone unheard, the people who have been killed by police whose stories, for some reason, do not garner national… Continue Reading