Date:  Tuesday – May 4th, 2010
Time: 6:00pm – 6:45pm Reception; 6:45pm –  8:45pm program begins,  followed by Q & A
Location: University Club, 800 Powell St., South Main Dining Room, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA

Cost:
$20 for Current Dues-Paying Member (Current Dues-Paying Penn Club Member)
$35 for Non-Members / Guests
Register via the following link: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=201861
Registration deadline: April 30, 2010
Space is limited so sign up soon.
No walk-in registrations. No refunds.

Description:

Join us for a Meeting-of-the-Minds Presentation from Brown History Professor Evelyn Hu-DeHart

Topic: "Uncovering and Recovering a Surprising History: Asian Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean"

The story of Asians in America is much deeper and longer than the Chinese railroad and mine workers in 19th century California that every schoolchild in America knows.  Professor Hu-Dehart will address themes including labor, racial exclusion, gender, and new cycles of migration to other parts of the Americas. The story begins with the Spaniards in colonial Mexico who conducted a transpacific trade of luxury and consumer goods with Asia for 250 years.  The history includes Japanese merchants arriving in Guadalajara in the early 17th century and Chinese coolies on Cuban and Peruvian plantations in the 19th century, as well as descendants of Japanese immigrants to Brazil and Peru and their ties to the 20th century.  The story of Asians in Latin America continues today with Koreans moving to Argentina.

Evelyn Hu-DeHart is Professor of History, and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown. She joined Brown from the University of Colorado at Boulder where she was Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America. She has also taught at the City University of New York system, New York University, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Arizona and University of Michigan, as well as lectured at universities and research institutes in Mexico, Peru, Cuba, France, Hongkong, Taiwan, and China.  
 
Professor Hu-DeHart was born in China and immigrated to the United States with her parents when she was 12. As an undergraduate at Stanford University she studied in Brazil on an exchange program. She became fascinated with Latin America and that interest eventually led her to a Ph.D. in Latin American history. She has written two books on the Yaqui Indians, and is now engaged in a large research project on the Asian diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean.