Dr. Angela Stuesse to Speak on Race and Worker Justice

Based on six years of research in Mississippi’s chicken processing plants and communities, as well as collaboration with a local workers’ center, anthropologist Angela Stuesse will discuss connections between the area’s long history of racial inequality, the industry’s drive to lower labor costs, and immigrants’ contested place in contemporary social relations. She will also consider workers’ prospects for political mobilization, arguing for organizing strategies that bring diverse working communities together in mutual construction of a more just future.

The talk will be held on Monday, April 4, from 4:30-6:00 p.m., in IES 123/124.