Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and The Transcontinental Railroad
04.01.2019| 4 - 5:30 PM | 691 Social Sciences Building (CRG Conference Room)
with Manu Karuka (Assistant Professor of American Studies at Barnard College)
The Native/Immigrant/Refugee – Crossings Research Initiative of the Center for Race & Gender presents:
Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and The Transcontinental Railroad with Manu Karuka, Assistant Professor of American Studies at Barnard College
Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American nations, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism.
BIO
Manu Karuka is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at Barnard College. In his scholarship and teaching, he focuses on the intersections of imperialism and capitalism. His intellectual approaches are grounded primarily in Indigenous critique, the Black radical tradition, and materialist feminisms.
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Co-sponsored by: Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, Indigenous Americas Working Group, Native American Studies, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Transnational & Ethnic American Studies Working Group.