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Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life

January 26, 2024

Chertok Lecture Asad Asad

Thursday, March 7th Noon to 1:30pm | PUB NCR Zoom option available: ewu.zoom.us/j/82411008097 Some eleven million undocumented immigrants reside in the United States, carving out lives amid a growing web of surveillance that threatens their and their families’ societal presence. Asad L. Asad’s book Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday

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Afropolitan Projects and Diasporic Cultural Politics: Context, Contest, and Connections

Anima Adjepong - Chertok Lecture

Thursday, February 29th Noon | Join us via Zoom In my book, Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities and Culture from Houston to Accra, I examine the diverse cultural and transnational strategies through which Ghanaians position themselves as citizens of the world. The Afropolitan is a politic, identity, and aesthetic that insists on elevating Africa’s place

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