Anita Casavantes Bradford, Associate Professor of history and Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California-Irvine. Casavantes' work reflects her commitment to social justice and Latino/a communities, especially Latino/a children.
Talk: "Monsignor Bryan Walsh, Cold War Catholicism, and the Politics of Asylum in Multiethnic Miami"
Tuesday, March 22
4:00 - 5:30pm
PRLACC - Student Union, 4th floor, Room 437
Anita Casavantes Bradford’s pathbreaking research examines the ways immigration, human rights, and childhood have affected the relationship between the United States and Cuba during the Cuban Revolution. The transnational breadth of her interests is reflected in her widely acclaimed 2014 book, The Revolution is for the Children: The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962.
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