interesting analysis manu, lots of helpful empirical data

https://www.crg.berkeley.edu/events/empires-tracks-indigenous-nations-chinese-workers-and-the-transcontinental-railroad/

The Native/Immigrant/Refugee – Crossings Research Initiative of the Center for Race & Gender presents:

Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad

MANU KARUKA, Assistant Professor of American Studies at Barnard College

Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American nations, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism.

Manu Karuka  is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at Barnard College. In his scholarship and teaching, he focuses on the intersections of imperialism and capitalism. His intellectual approaches are grounded primarily in Indigenous critique, the Black radical tradition, and materialist feminisms.

EMPIRE’S TRACKS: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad

On this episode James talks with Erica Lorraine Williams, Assistant Professor at Spelman College and author of 'Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements.' They discuss Erica’s book, which explores how Brazil’s sex tourism industry affects Afro-Brazilian women’s lives in the Brazilian state of Bahia. They also look more broadly at how Afro-Brazilian women have been impacted by the election of president Jair Balsanaro, and the ways they have organized to resist this current regime.

You can learn more about Erica's book here: [https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/67nsg8gz9780252037931.html]

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The Center for Race and Gender (CRG) is an interdisciplinary research center at the University of California, Berkeley that fosters explorations of race, gender, and their intersections.

EMPIRE’S TRACKS: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad

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