3. Pre-Season 2017
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
-Swearer Overview
-Community Building
-Bonner Overview
-Identity
Development
-Providence Context
-Community Partners
Day 4 Day 5 Day
-Match Day -Walking Tours -On-Site Meeting
-Reflection
4. Workshop goals
1. Learn a (brief) history of Brown in Providence.
2. Contextualize ourselves within that history.
3. Establish some guidelines + norms for working
within Providence communities.
5. Definitions
We will use power as a catch-all term
for ability, influence, and access,
granted and reinforced by institutions,
structures, history, and individuals. It is
distributed inequitably.
Power
6. Definitions
Unearned power enjoyed by a dominant group, giving
them economic, political, social, and cultural advantages
at the expense of members of a marginalized group.
Source: The Anti-Oppression Network
https://theantioppressionnetwork.com/resources/terminologies-of-
oppression/
Privilege
7. Reflect:
- Did you interact with student
volunteers who provided you with a
service?
- In what context?
- What was that experience like?
8. Turn and Talk:
- Did you interact with student
volunteers who provided you with a
service?
- In what context?
- What was that experience like?
9. Group Share:
- Did you interact with student
volunteers who provided you with a
service?
- In what context?
- What was that experience like?
11. 2
3
1 Forced Displacement of Native American Communities
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
Gentrification of Fox Point
4 Property Taxes
12. “
“Which said piece of land contains about four acres, and
became the property of us, said Moses and John Brown, by a
deed of bargain and sale … the present grantor’s
great-grandfather, who received it by descent from his
father Chad Brown, who was one of the original proprietors
after the native Indians from whom it was purchased … “
- The Charter of Brown
University, 1765.
Source: Remembering Race at Brown.
Forced Displacement of Native American
Communities
17. Definitions
Gentrification is a general term for the arrival of
wealthier people in an existing urban district, a related
increase in rents and property values, and changes in
the district’s character and culture. The term is often
used negatively, suggesting the displacement of poor
communities by rich outsiders.
Source: Benjamin Grant, PBS.org.
Gentrification
23. I am Olivia Veira
I am a 21-year-old woman. I am Black +
Caribbean-American. I was born in
Washington, D.C. and raised in Atlanta.
Hello!
24. I am Juan Carlos Carranza
I identify as a queer, Latino man from a
low-income background. I’m a first-gen
college grad. Home is San Diego, California
and Providence, Rhode Island.
Hello!
25. “
The concept of translocational positionality addresses
issues of identity in terms of locations which are not
fixed but are context-, meaning-, and time-related and
which therefore involve shifts and contradictions...
Floya Anthias
“
29. political power
Power here references our
capacity to “get things done.”
It is influenced by systems
and institutions and is
inequitably distributed.
Political power describes our
ability to influence and control
politics.
Former mayor Angel Taveras, mayor Jorge Elorza,
and Christina Paxson symbolically digging at the site
of Brown’s expansion into the Jewelry District.
30. economic privilege
Resources and advantages that
have monetary value. Examples
are the resources available
specifically to the Brown
community that aren’t afforded to
other college students/community
members.
31. social capital
Refers to the connections between
individuals and entities that can be
economically valuable, directly or
indirectly. These relationships
between individuals and
companies can lead to a state in
which each thinks of the other
when something needs to be
done.
32. Turn and Talk:
How do you think Brown’s political
power, economic privilege, and social
capital will impact you in your time at
Brown? How might it affect your work in
Providence?