Jordan Brewington

BA, Political Science & Ethnicity and Race Studies ​

School: CC

Year: 2017

Jordan studied Columbia’s role in the slave trade, specifically how students and affiliates were forced to reckon with the oppression of free and enslaved black people in the founding years of the institution. In studying this, she focused on the importance of the visual in eighteenth century American life, specifically the importance of sight and its relationship to truth. She then utilized black visual theorists to discuss how Columbia community members in the 21st century ought to visualize that black life in order to acknowledge, honor, and bring awareness to the oppression of those enslaved black men and women.