Dean of the College and Historical Studies Program Present

Race-Making and Empire in Filipino Louisiana

A talk drawn from the book manuscript, Manila Bayou: Louisiana Filipinos and the Birth of Asian America. Using census records, newspapers, court documents, and oral histories, this talk will trace the racial formation of Louisiana’s early Filipino communities from the antebellum era through Jim Crow. Arguing that the racial formation of Filipinos and other “third peoples” in the Jim Crow South must be understood both in relationship to the Black-white binary as well as through the circulation of racial ideologies across imperial boundaries. this talk will highlight the formation of racial ideologies as simultaneously a local and global process, one that draws our attention to the interplay between European and American imperial projects in the Atlantic and the Pacific.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm EST/GMT-5

Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102

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