Lost Anniversaries on Brown’s 250th

These acts are part of a larger practice of colonization that has silenced the violent legacies of its origins. The institutional silence around these legacies continues today. Brown’s 250^th Anniversary website invites readers “to pause…to reflect, to honor our founders, to recognize the women and men who shaped the Brown of today…”[1] yet it says nothing about who came before Brown’s founders or the original inhabitants of the land Brown stands on today.

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[1] “About Brown’s 250^th,” Imagine Brown 250+, http://250.brown.edu/about-brown-250, (November 2, 2014)