Tue, Mar 12
|Facebook and Youtube Livestream
MACRI Talk: The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers
Learn about the multiracial coalitions formed between the United Farm Workers and five Black civil rights organizations to protest the exploitation of Mexican American farmworkers in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Time & Location
Mar 12, 2024, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Facebook and Youtube Livestream
Guests
About the event
Join us for a VIRTUAL MACRI Talk with Dr. Lauren Araiza about the multiracial coalitions formed between the United Farm Workers and five Black civil rights organizations to protest the exploitation of Mexican American farmworkers in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Our FREE virtual event will stream live on Facebook at https://bit.ly/FB-MACRI & YouTube at https://bit.ly/YT-MACRI on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 6PM Central Time. Just click on your preferred site to join the presentation at 6PM CT!
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Dr. Lauren Araiza is an Associate Professor of History and Black Studies at Denison University in Ohio. She teaches survey courses in African-American history and the U.S. since 1865. She also offers seminars on the Civil Rights Movement, the intellectual history of Black Power, the American West, and comparative social movements. Her other teaching interests include labor history, comparative race and ethnicity, and oral history.
Dr. Araiza’s first book, TO MARCH FOR OTHERS: THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE AND THE UNITED FARM WORKERS, was published in the fall of 2013 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Her book examines the complexities of multiracial coalition building in American social movements by examining the relationships between the major organizations of the Black freedom struggle and the UFW, a union of primarily Mexican American farm workers. Dr. Araiza has also published in the Journal of African American History and has contributed an essay to the edited collection, THE STRUGGLE IN BLACK AND BROWN: AFRICAN AMERICAN AND MEXICAN AMERICAN RELATIONS DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA (University of Nebraska Press, 2011).
Dr. Araiza received her B.A. from Williams College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
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