Upcoming Events

Please mark your calendars for a special book celebration for Nicole Burrowes' Seeds of Solidarity: African-Indian Relations and the 1935 Labor Rebellions in British Guiana.

Date: Thursday, November 5th

Time: 6-8pm

Location: Academic Building WEST, 6th Floor, (15 Seminary Place New Brunswick, NJ 07203)

Sponsors: RAICCS and Rutgers British Studies Center

Co-sponsors: Department of History, Africana Studies, South Asian Studies Program 

Brief opening comments by Nicole Burrowes

Speakers: 

Marisa Fuentes, author of Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence and the Archive (Rutgers University, New Brunswick)

Gaiutra Bahadur, author of Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture (Rutgers University, Newark)

Russell Rickford, author of A Proxy Africa: Guyana, African Americans and the Radical 1970s (Cornell University)

Collective closing by Ujju Aggarwal, Ditra Edwards,  Adjoa Jones de Almeida, and Paula Rojas

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RAICCS is excited to announce a reading group of Sylvia Wynter's "Black Metamorphosis" led by Alick McCallum and Jein Kim.  This reading group builds on the RAICCS symposium held earlier this year, "The Trouble With/Of Sylvia Wynter's 'Black Metamorphosis,'" which was led by Bryant Brown, jr.