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Watch BPI alum Rodney Spivey-Jones defend his Senior Project, “Messianic Black Bodies,” an analysis of the use of the Black body as a tool of rhetoric and activism. This scene was one of the most remarked upon moments in the series. Due to the many requests to obtain a copy of his Senior Project, Rodney has published his revised thesis in two parts in The A-Line Journal. Part 1, “Black Disfigurement and the American Hieroglyphics of Race,” is out now!
When incarcerated students from the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) Debate Union beat a team from Harvard, their victory made headlines around the world.
The Bard Prison Initiative Debate Union prepares for a debate against the University of Vermont in 2014.