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Jim Crow and the Legacy of Segregation Outside of the South

MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MA

Is the de facto segregation that exists in many Northern cities a result of the lack of forced integration of the type that took place in the South?

Scott Richmond

Ordinary Violence and Network Form: On #blacklivesmatter

MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

Scott C. Richmond argues that what is at stake in #blacklivesmatter is a Black political form that is also an emphatically network form, operating below, beyond, and to the side of what can be practiced, grasped at the level of the individual, of intention, and of representation.