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Flight of Fancy: Whiteness, Suburbanization, and Identity in San Juan, Puerto Rico since 1940

April 4, 2008 @ 12:00 am

Prof. Figueroa is the author of Sugar, Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico (University of North Carolina Press, 2005. His scholarly interests include slavery, post-emancipation, and racial discourses and practices in the Caribbean, historical film (both fiction and documentary), and the history of Latinos/Latinas in the USA. His new research project focuses on urbanism, suburbanization, and colonialism in San Juan, Puerto Rico since 1930. He is also coproducing a documentary film on Hartford in the 1960s as part of Trinity’s Hartford Studies Project.
Sponsored by the History Department’s Program on Work, Labor, and Democracy and the Policy History Program.

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Date:
April 4, 2008
Time:
12:00 am