History Seminar: Indigenous Interventions in Cross-Border Debates About Democracy, Education, and Race in the Early Twentieth Century

Convener(s): Eduardo Posada-Carbo

Speaker(s): Joanna Crow, Bristol University

To join online, please register in advance: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/L7b6Ve2XQ3WUIoXX-haerg

‘CHILE—Antofagasta. Soldiers of the Republic, mostly Indian boys from the mountains attending the barrack school where they are taught to read and write’. The Hispanic Society of America, Postcard Collection, ca. 1920. H-112. Courtesy of the Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas, Austin.

Jo Crow is Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Bristol. She is author of The Mapuche in Modern Chile: A Cultural History (University Press of Florida, 2013) and Itinerant Ideas: Race, Indigeneity and Cross-Border Intellectual Encounters in Latin America, 1900-1950 (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2022). She is currently working on a third monograph which explores international congresses as a key site of race-making in Latin America. She is also involved in an ongoing digital public history project about Mapuche political activism in Chile.