Scandal in the Plaza Mayor: Race-making, Resistance, and the Persecution of a Black Female Property Owner in Colonial Oaxaca
Department: History
Date and Time: February 24, 2022 | 4:00 PM-5:30 PMEvent Location: HIB 135
Event Details
Scandal in the Plaza Mayor: Race-making, Resistance, and the Persecution of a Black Female Property Owner in Colonial Oaxaca
Thursday, February 24, 2022 | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
Location: HIB135
Speaker: Sabrina Smith, Assistant Professor at UC Merced
Sabrina Smith specializes in the history of the African Diaspora to Mexico and Central America. Sabrina Smith is currently working on her first book manuscript tentatively titled, Beyond Captivity and Freedom: African-Descended Women and Men in Colonial Oaxaca. Last semester, she was a fellow at the John Carter Brown Library and the Huntington Library. Smith received a B.A in Spanish Literature and Anthropology from UC Santa Barbara and she earned her MA and PhD in History from UCLA.
The event is co-sponsored by UCI Department of History and UCI Latin American Studies Center