The Latino Studies Program in Celebration and Commemoration of Chicana/o Farmworker Leader Cesar Chavez on National Cesar Chavez Day, Friday, March 31st presents "The California Grape Boycott, the Black Freedom Struggle, and Lessons for Cross-racial Cooperation" by Dr. Lauren Araiza (Denison U).
Dr. Lauren Araiza is an associate professor of History at Denison University. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Her 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).
Sponsored by the Latino Studies Program, the Department of History, and the Department of African American and African Studies (AAAS).
The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
