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Remapping Labor: Latino/a Workers and American Culture
Date(s): April 3-4, 2008
Location: Kennesaw State University, Georgia
Description:
Conference
Proposal deadline:
January 5, 2008
Contact information:
Randall L. Patton
rpatton@kennesaw.edu
Department of History & Philosophy
Kennesaw State University
1000 Chastain Road
Kennesaw, GA 30144
Additional information:
Kennesaw State University’s American Studies Program, Center for Regional History & Culture, and Shaw Industries Chair invite proposals for a conference on Latino/a labor and American culture. This conference seeks multi-disciplinary/interdisciplinary proposals for papers that examine any aspect of the integration of labor markets between the United States and Latin America, including causes and consequences. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the experiences of workers from either or both sides of the Rio Grande or the Caribbean; the impact of trade policy; examinations of union-organizing campaigns; biography; the cultural impact of labor migration; the politics of migration/emigration/immigration; historical perspectives on any aspect of Latino/a labor in America.
The keynote speaker for the conference is Gilbert Gonzalez, University of California- Irvine. Professor Gonzalez has authored or edited several books, including Guest Workers or Colonized Labor? Mexican Labor Migration to the United States (2006), Culture of Empire: American Writers, Mexico, and Mexican Immigrants, 1880-1930 (2004), and (co-editor) Labor Versus Empire (2004).
Send one-page paper or panel proposals via e-mail to Randall Patton at
rpatton@kennesaw.edu by January 5, 2008. We encourage discussions of works-in-progress. Small stipends to help defray travel costs are available on a competitive basis to presenters.
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