"Cosmopolitan Encounters: Mexican Immigrants and Mexican Americans in Post-WWII Chicago" This year`s Ann Plato Lecture will be given by Ann Plato Fellow Mike Amezcua on Thursday, November 12th, at 4:00 p.m. in the Reese Room of Smith House. A reception will follow. The lecture will focus on the prominence of postwar Chicago as a place of multiple migrations, displacement, and identities in motion. It was a receiving city for the Second Great Migration of African Americans and Southern Whites, imported workers from Mexico, the urban relocation of Native Americans, and increased Puerto Rican migration from the island. In this historical context of migration and movement, Mr. Amezcua will discuss the social and cultural worlds made by ethnic Mexicans in the decades following World War II. Students, faculty, administration, and staff are welcomed and encouraged to attend. A reception will follow the lecture. |