Join us to learn about the evolution of Latino food and food labor in the Northeastern United States since World War II with Dr. Lori Flores, historian of Latino labor, immigration, and food.

🗓️ This virtual MACRI Talk will take place on Thursday, January 23, 2025, at 6 PM Central.

⭐️ Our FREE virtual event will stream live on Facebook at https://bit.ly/FB-MACRI and YouTube at https://bit.ly/YT-MACRI.

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About the talk
Though Latino cuisine is eagerly embraced and consumed by people across the United States, the nation exhibits a much more fraught relationship with Latino people, including the largely underpaid immigrant workers who harvest, process, cook, and sell this popular food. Focusing on the Northeastern United States, Dr. Lori A. Flores traces how American’s dual appetite for Latino food and Latino food labor has evolved from the World War II era to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Flores will describe the experiences of food workers with roots in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Central America, from New Jersey to Maine, and links in the food chain, from farming to restaurants to seafood processing to the deliverista rights movement.

About our guest
Lori A. Flores is an Associate Professor of History at Stony Brook University. She was born and raised in South Texas, and she fell in love with Mexican American history as an undergraduate at Yale. After earning her degree, she pursued a PhD in History at Stanford University. She researches and teaches about modern America, U.S. Latinxs, labor, immigration, and food history. She also teaches seminars about the craft of oral history, labor history, and borderlands history.

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