Sunday, June 14, 2020

 Virtual Book Discussion with
Professors Ariela J. Gross and Alejandro de la Fuente

Becoming Free, Becoming Black

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Please join us for HLSA-DC’s first Zoom book event on Sunday, June 14 from 5-6 p.mAriela J. Gross (Harvard College, Class of 1987), the John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, and Alejandro de la Fuente, the Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics and Director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University will be discussing their recent book and taking questions from participants. Troy Brown (HLS, Class of 2003) will moderate the discussion.  This event is co-sponsored by the HLSA Black Alumni Network and the HLSA Latino Alumni Network.

 

RSVPs are required for this free event; please register using the form on the left side of the page no later than June 11, 2020.  Details for joining the Zoom call will be emailed to participants.

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Becoming Free, Becoming Black is available from any online book seller, including bookshop.org.  Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders' efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery.

 

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Looking closely at three slave societies - Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana - Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross demonstrate that the law of freedom - not slavery - established the meaning of blackness in law. Contests over freedom determined whether and how it was possible to move from slave to free status, and whether claims to citizenship would be tied to racial identity. Laws regulating the lives and institutions of free people of color created the boundaries between black and white, the rights reserved to white people, and the degradations imposed only on black people.

 

 

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When:

5:00PM - 6:00PM Sun 14 Jun 2020, Eastern timezone

Virtual Event Instructions:

Zoom (log-in details will be sent to registrants)

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Nomi Stolzenberg
  USC Law School
Pamela Nwaoko
Stan Barg
Martha Minow
  Harvard University
Ted Hochstadt
JUDITH NEIBRIEF
  retired
pat jacobs
  Greenleaf
DeJeune O'Garro
Loretta Argrett
Karma Frierson
Odeana Neal
  University of Baltimore School of Law
Sheria Smith
Nicole Britenriker
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Jacqueline Brown
cynthia totten
Taimarie Adams
  Harvard Law School
Juanita Hernandez
  HLSA DC
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  Retired
Marie Park
  DC Board on Professional Responsibility
Toby Hyman
Steven Rogers
  Center for Urban Research and Public Policy
Maurice White
  Self-employed
Eddie Eitches
William Kenety
Meagan Flint
  Harvard Law School
DINAH TOUNY
Kristin Cabral
Gregory Keating
  USC Gould School of Law
Yevgeny Shrago
  BCG
Jorge Kamine
  Harvard Law School Assn. of DC
Loretta Argrett
  Retired
Pat Jacobs
  HLS73
Sarah Pheasant
Robert Winter
Pamela Nwaoko
Stan Barg
Geoffrey Green
Maura Smyles
Christina Gonzalez Ho
Trisha Jhunjhnuwala
David Sclar
Jeannette Wise
Cynthia Totten
Jack Lipson
  retired partner Arnold & Porter
Jack Lipson
  retired partner Arnold & Porter
Whitney Boles
Sakisha Jackson
Henry Richardson
Joyce Van Dee
Kaye Pestaina
Dwight Alpern
John Goodman
Allison Brown
Luis Silva de Balboa
Maria Ontiveros
  University of San Francisco
Amanda Gómez
Joyce Van Dee
Chela H
Ana Maria Martel
  retired
Diana Colon
Maria Ontiveros
  University of San Francisco
Diana Saliceti
Marie Taylor
Marie Taylor
Cynthia Hawkins
  Stetson Univ. College of Law
Precious Anderson
Arthur George Kamya
Dan Eaton
  Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek
Don Mitchell
  The 400 Year Project
pat Williams
pat Williams
Michelle Simpson
  Poe Simpson Law
Michelle Shaw
John Rose
  Hunter College
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Charles Roybal
Ki Ingersol
  HLS 1992
Arlene Brock
  Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative
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Russell Stockard
  California Lutheran University
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Elizabeth Valera
  Harvard Club of Georgia
Patricia Bass
DIANE LUCAS
Shirley Jean
Jaimie McFarlin
Peggy Cooper Davis
  NYU
Bernice Grant
  Fordham University School of Law
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  NBCUniversal
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Ginger McKnight-Chavers
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  Harvard Law School
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  emory university
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cristina rodrigues
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  Harvard Law School
April Savoy
Cecelia Andrews
Jessica Sewell
Christine Tripp
Tera Hunter
Carolyn Malmstrom
  Michigan State University
Juny Francois
  J. François & Associates, LLC
David Goldberg
N'yella Rogers
Javier Gonzalez
Iason Togias
Amanda Cuiffo
  Harvard Law School
Kristin Cabral
Paula-Rose Stark
Trisha Jhunjhnuwala
Liz Picone
Robert Winter
  Arnold & Porter
William Zerhouni
JUDITH NEIBRIEF
Catherine Brown
  retired
Taimarie Adams
  Merit
Henry Richardson
Lois Schiffer
Gail Bowman
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Esteban M. Guijarro
  Harvard Law School Executive Education
Loretta Argrett
Andrea Charters
George Velez
John Cella
Vicki Judson
Juny Francois
  J. François & Associates, LLC
Lena Zezulin
B. Thomas Mansbach
  Retired
Peter Fielding
Melanie Dorsey
Sarah Bell
  HLS
Peter Fielding
Shulamith Gross
  Baruch college CUNY
Janice Gorin
Danielle Johnson
Jose Morales
Eduardo Espinosa
  HLS
Merritt Baer
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Esteban M. Guijarro
  Harvard Law School Executive Education
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  The Cullen Law Firm PLLC
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