"Building Power for Others: Multiracial Solidarity and the Reemergence of Filipino Cannery Worker Organizing in the 1970s" by Michael Schulze-Oechtering
Department: Asian American Studies
Date and Time: December 9, 2015 | 12:00 PM-1:30 PMEvent Location: HG 3200
Event Details
The UCI Asian American Studies Critical Voices series invites you to attend a paper workshop.
“Building Power for Others: Multiracial Solidarity and the Reemergence of Filipino Cannery Worker Organizing in the 1970s” is an essay by Michael Schulze-Oechtering, doctoral candidate in ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley, that examines African American and Asian American labor solidarity in the Alaska Cannery Worker Association. The essay has been selected for the Amerasia Journal special issue on “Inter-Generational Collaboration” and the workshop is an opportunity to provide constructive feedback for revision.
Dorothy Fujita-Rony, Associate Professor of Asian American studies at the University of California, Irvine, and author of America Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919-1941, will serve as a commentator for the workshop.
To RSVP and receive a copy of the essay, please contact jasmine.robledo@uci.edu by Dec. 4th. Refreshments will be provided.
For more information about or to volunteer to share work through the Asian American Studies Critical Voices series, please contact Christine Balance (cbalance@uci.edu) or Judy Wu (j.wu@uci.edu).