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The Black Lives in the New South Speaker Series
(Special Event)
Please join Dr. Vanesa Ribas, University of California-San Diego as she presents, "Slaughterhouse Lives: Black and Latin@ Workers in the Southern Meat Industry".
Dr. Ribas;s talk will draw upon her dissertation research, now published as "On the Line: Slaughterhouse Lives and the Making of the New South," which questions conventional theories of intergroup competition and conflict. She conducted ethnographic research while employed as a regular production worker in a North Carolina meatpacking plant for sixteen months between 2009 and 2010. She examines the character of social relations between Latina/o migrants and their chief counterparts in the workplace - African Americans.
Sponsored by: the Women and Minority Artists and Scholars Lecture Series, the Women's and Gender Studies Program, the Department of Sociology, the Gloria Smith Professor of Africana Studies, and the Race and Social Policy Research Center.
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