Mireya Loza on the Bracero Program, Migration, and Political History
Posted by Temple University on August 8, 2016
Temple University’s Visualizing Sustainability series presents:
Mireya Loza on the Bracero Program, Migration, and Political History
Thursday, September 29, 2:30 PM
Paley Library Lecture Hall, 1210 Polett Walk, Ground Floor
Mireya Loza, curator at the Smithsonian Museum of American History, discusses the Bracero Program (1942-1964), the largest guest worker initiative in U.S. history. Loza’s most recent publication, Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom (University of North Carolina Press), has been widely lauded as the most comprehensive and extensive historical publication on Braceros and the Bracero Program.
Non-Temple students, please bring an ID upon arrival. For more information please visit
http://sustainability.temple.edu/about-us/calendar/mireya-loza-bracero-program-migration-and-political-history
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