Filipina Suffragists of the 20th Century: Confronting Race, Gender, and Empire in the Fight for Voting Rights

Join NYSEAN and Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU for a lecture by Rose Cuison-Villazor, Visiting Scholar at Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar at Rutgers Law School. This lecture will explore the contributions of Filipina Americans to the suffrage movements in both the United States and the Philippines during the early 20th century, and will discuss how their advocacy intersected with broader national and global efforts to dismantle the racial, gendered, and imperial barriers to women’s voting rights. A conversation between Professor Rose Cuison-Villazor, Professor Adrian De Leon, Danika Fernandez, and Professor Rhacel Salazar Parreñas follows the lecture.