Histories Of Empire and Transcolonial Circuits Of Freedom
09.13.2018| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall
In 1768 a refugee man, woman, and her two children arrived on the shores of southern Cuba. Like dozens of people before them, they had escaped by boat from the horrors of sugar plantation slavery in British Jamaica, more than one hundred miles to the south. At the time, Spain had a policy offering religious asylum and manumission to escapees from slavery in the colonies of its Protestant imperial rivals. What did it mean to be a...
“It is a crime to be young here”: Violence against Minors in Central America, Mexico, and the United States Leisy J. Abrego, Department of Chicana/o Studies, UCLA
US government officials have labeled Central American young people arriving in recent years as everything from representatives of a “humanitarian crisis” to a “...
The Place of Paris In Vietnamese Diasporic Fiction
09.27.2018| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall
Aimee Phan is one of a group of Vietnamese American writers whose recent work has grappled with the complex legacy of Paris as a site crucial to the Vietnamese diaspora and its imaginary. In his presentation, Karl Ashoka Britto will discuss Phan’s The Reeducation of Cherry Truong, a novel that tells the story of a Vietnamese refugee family split between the United States and France. He will consider in...
