Title: "They Take Our Jobs! And Other Myths about Immigration."
Aviva Chomsky is Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. Her books include Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal (Beacon Press, 2014; Mexican edition, 2014), A History of the Cuban Revolution (2011, 2nd ed. 2015), Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class (2008), ...
1730 Cambridge Street, Belfer Case Study Room (S010)
Panelists Janet Helms (Boston College), Stuart Schrader (Harvard University), Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley College), and Adam Van Arsdale (Wellesley College). Moderated by: Kirsten Weld (Harvard University). Sponsored by the Weatherhead Initiative of Global History and the Warren Center.
Harvard workers with Temporary Protected Status (TPS, a program that has recently been terminated by Trump for Haiti, El Salvador and Nicaragua) have written a letter requesting that President Faust support a path for permanent residency for them and their families. Workers are looking for solidarity from the University community. Please take a few minutes to join them in delivering their letter. This event is a quick commitment and your participation would mean a lot!
This letter also features the stories of 5 workers and their families who are...
Title: "The Fall of Walter Jenkins: Antigay Policing and the Boundaries of the Carceral State in the 1960s." Presented by the Workshop on Crime and Punishment.
Title: "The United States as a Developing Nation: The Political Origins of Modern American Capitalism". Presented by the Political Economy Workshop and the Charles Warren Center.