From ‘Women on the Loose’ to ‘Women in the Lead’: Indian Nurses Navigate the International Division of Nursing Labor

How is nursing tied to histories of capitalist imperialism in India and the United States? How was it divided by gender, race, class, caste, sexuality, region and religion? How do we find the stories of marginalized women workers in the archives? What happens when we ask Indian nurses about their own life stories? A talk that traces the shifting positions of Indian nurses within an international division of nursing labor, and connects the colonization of the Indian subcontinent, the racial apartheid of the Jim and Jane Crow United States, the construction of Cold War neocolonialism, and the last major overhaul of U.S. immigration law over fifty years ago.

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The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race

Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 Time: 5pm to 7pm Place: City College of New York 160 Convent Avenue, Manhattan – NAC Ballroom Free – Open to the Public In this talk, based on her new book The Limits of Whiteness (2017, Stanford University Press), sociologist Neda Maghbouleh shares the under-theorized and sometimes heartbreaking story of … Read more

Snakeheads: Chinese Mafia & the New Slave Trade

Museum of Chinese in America Date: Thursday, October 19, 2017 Time: 6:30pm to 8pm Place: Museum of Chinese in America 215 Centre Street, Manhattan In conjunction with the Museum of Chinese in America’s new exhibition, FOLD: Golden Venture Paper Structures, which presents the story of passengers of the Golden Venture which ran aground in 1993, … Read more