History Forum - Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs In-Person
Dr. Maria L. Quintana will give a talk drawn from her book, Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). She is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at Sacramento State University. In the book, Professor Quintana interprets U.S. guestworker labor importation and the Mexican Bracero Program through a transborder and global history of labor rights and empire. She investigates these government-sponsored programs as the unexplored consequence of the history of enslaved labor, Japanese American incarceration, the New Deal, the long Civil Rights Movement, and Caribbean de-colonization. In doing so, Professor Quintana advances an interpretation of guestworker programs that moves beyond national borders and U.S.- Mexico relations to understand and underscore their colonial roots and effects.
This event is free and open to the public.
- Date:
- Friday, April 26, 2024
- Time:
- 3:00pm - 4:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Pacific Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Dezember Reading Room
- Categories:
- History Forum
This event is co-sponsored by the CSUB Department of History, the Walter W. Stiern Library, and the ASI Instructionally Related Activities Program.