Jason OIiver Chang from the University of Connecticut is speaking this Thursday, October 23, 1:15-2:45pm in University Union 103. His talk, “‘Abajo Los Chinos’: Race and the Public Sphere in Revolutionary Mexico,” is part of a year-long series on “China in Latin America: Expanding Dimensions of South-South Development” sponsored by the Harpur College Dean’s Office.
Professor Chang is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies and History at the University of Connecticut, Storrs where he teaches U.S. immigration history, Asian American history and the history of Asian Diasporas in the Americas. His current book-length project, Los Chinos and the Making of the Mexican Mestizo, 1880-1940, is a history of comparative racial formations in turn of the century, revolutionary Mexico. He holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and an MPA from U Massachusetts Amherst.
This talk is co-sponsored by the Sociology Department, LCAS, and AAAS.
