*New* Check Out This Symposium on Contracting Freedom and Latinx History (4/20/23 @3:30PM)
Posted: 4/15/2023 (Demography News)
The UW Harry Bridges Center, Department of History, Latin American Studies, and American Ethnic Studies are collaborating on a special event marking the release of historian Maria Quintana’s new book Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). The book is the first relational study of the origins of twentieth-century U.S. guest worker programs from Mexico and the Caribbean. Quintana’s book offers an expansive interpretation of those government-sponsored programs and draws historical connections between enslaved labor, Japanese American incarceration, Caribbean decolonization, New Deal programs, and Black freedom struggles. The program will take place in the Allen Library at 3:30pm and will include the author and several scholars who will reflect on the book’s relevance.
Time: 3:30 – 6 p.m.
Deadline: 04/20/2023
Location: Petersen Room (4th Floor, Room 485), Allen Library, UW Seattle