Providence Mutual Aid

This digital project on mutual aid in Rhode Island aims to capture and digitally archive the spontaneous moment of collective action, while drawing future lessons for how social welfare policy can mitigate racial and ethnic inequality. As a community-based research partnership with the Alliance to Mobilize Our Resistance (AMOR), a coalition of five grassroots organizations founded in 2016, this oral history project grounds the experiences of Providence’s refugee, immigrant, and low income racial minority communities, alongside discussions with national activists and scholars considering the effects of COVID on racial and ethnic inequality. Working with an interdisciplinary team of seven Brown graduate students of race, it equally serves as a mentorship hub, and place for graduate students to develop new skills in the intersections of race and the digital humanities.

Contributors to this project include Cody Carvel, Ashley Champagne (CDS Lead), Steve Lubar (CDS Lead), Elli Mylonas