Racial Capitalism Media Fellow Honored by the World Economic Forum
Larry Madowo, Columbia Journalism 2020, has been selected as a Young Global Leader of 2020.
Larry Madowo, Columbia Journalism class of 2020 and Center for the Study of Social Difference Racial Capitalism working group Media Fellow, has been selected as a Young Global Leader of 2020 by the World Economic Forum.
To see a full list of honorees click here.
New Netflix Docu-series Inspired by the book 'On Her Own Ground' Reaches Number 1
The show, titled Self Made, was inspired by the work of A’Lelia Bundles, CSSD Women Creating Change Leadership Council member.
The new four part docu-series on Netflix, titled Self Made, chronicles the life of Madam C.J. Walker. The show, starring Octavia Spencer was inspired by the book originally titled On Her Ground : The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker and was written by Walker’s great-great-granddaughter and Women Creating Change Leadership Council member A’Lelia Bundles.
Watch the limited series now out on Netflix.
New Post from Women Mobilizing Memory Working Group Member for International Women's Day
Women Mobilizing Memory book editor, Ayşe Gül Altınay, penned the recent post Feminist Curious Steps Through History: Illumination in Dark Times for Social Difference Online.
Ayşe Gül Altınay, editor of the recently published Women Mobilizing Memory book and member of the Women Mobilizing Memory working group penned the recent Social Difference Online blog post Feminist Curious Steps Through History: Illumination in Dark Times . The post was submitted in honor of International Women’s Day, March 8, 2020.
Ana Paulina Lee Participates in Workshop Discussing Restitution of Plundered Objects
The workshop was hosted by the Decolonial Collective on Migration of Objects and People at Brown University.
On February 7, 2020, Ana Paulina Lee, co-director of the Geographies of Injustice: Gender and the City working group, delivered a presentation of her research, “Sorcery and Violence in the Archive,” in a workshop titled “Gendered Approaches to Restitution: Labor, Migration, Structural Amnesia and Trauma.” The workshop brought scholars together to discuss the restitution of plundered objects as part of “world repairing.”
Read about the workshop here.
Geographies of Injustice Fellows Featured in Rio On Watch
Fernando Ermiro and Antônio Carlos Firmino are both fellows of the CSSD Geographies of Injustice working group and partners in the Sankofa Museum.
Fernando Ermiro and Antônio Carlos Firmino, fellows of the CSSD working group Geographies of Injustice, are highlighted for the work they have done with the Sankofa Museum. Ermiro discusses his participation in the resident-led tours of Rocinha and suggests that they are essential to accurately depict the community’s long history and to support local development. He argues that community-led tours should “touch on certain points: the law is not a synonym for justice; income distribution what moves the local economy thinking globally and acting locally.”
For their whole account and the rest of the article, read here.
To learn more about the work of Geographies of Injustice, read here.