Hi ALASistas-- would the two ALAS groups like to have lunch with
Professor Hu-DeHart on Friday, October 20?  As you can see (below), she
is pre-eminent in her field!  Please let me know ASAP, so Dorothy can
reserve a room. As you know, she will be speaking here on Thursday,
October 19 at 4:30 p.m. in Pearson 128 on the "Asian Diaspora in Latin
America: 1492-Present".  Her Thursday schedule is full to the brim with
class visits and the lecture, but she is available to meet individually
with people on Friday morning, October 20, after 9:15 a.m. Thanks, Dra.
"B" 

About Professor Hu-DeHart
Evelyn Hu-DeHart is Professor of History, and Director of the Center
for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown. She joins Brown
from the University of Colorado at Boulder where she was Chair of the
Department of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Center for Studies of
Ethnicity and Race in America. She has also taught at the City
University of New York system, New York University, Washington
University in St. Louis, University of Arizona and University of
Michigan, as well as lectured at universities and research institutes in
Mexico, Peru, Cuba, France, Hongkong, Taiwan, and China. Evelyn
Hu-DeHart often describes herself as a multicultural person who speaks
several languages (including English, Chinese, French, and Spanish) and
moves easily among several cultures. Her professional life has focused
on what Cuban historian Juan Perez de la Riva calls "historia de la
gente sin historia." She was born in China and immigrated to the United
States with her parents when she was twelve. As an undergraduate at
Stanford University she studied in Brazil on an exchange program. She
became fascinated with Latin America and that interest eventually led
her to a Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of Texas at
Austin. In 1988 she left the City University of New York to become the
CSERA Director at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has written
two books on the Yaqui Indians, and is now engaged in a large research
project on the Asian diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Read more about Professor Hu-DeHart

Research Interests
The goal of Professor Hu-DeHart's diaspora project is to uncover and
recover the history of Asian migration to Latin America and the
Caribbean, and to document and analyze the contributions of these
immigrants to the formation of Latin/Caribbean societies and cultures.
It should also contribute towards theorizing diasporas and
transnationalism. The importance and timeliness of this research was
most recently demonstrated by the election of Alberto Fujimori, son of
Japanese immigrants, as President of Peru. Hu-DeHart also hopes that her
work would broaden the scope of Asian American Studies as well as
contribute to an area not well covered within Latin American Studies.
The following summary highlights the work that she has done so far on
the Chinese in Cuba, Peru and Mexico. She has published numerous
articles in English, Spanish, French, and Chinese on the topic, and
expects to publish at least one book.


Publications
Books: 

Missionaries, Miners, and Indians: History of Spanish Contact with the
Yaqui Indians of Northwestern New Spain, 1533-1830. Tucson: University
of Arizona Press, 1981. 

Yaqui Resistance and Survival: Struggle for Land and Autonomy,
1821-1910. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. 

Adaptacion y Resistencia en el Yaquimi: Los Yaquis Durante la Colonia.
Coleccion de Historia de los pueblos indigenas de Mexico, dirigida por
Teresa Rojas Rabiela y Mario Humberto Ruz. Mexico: Centro de
Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social (CIESAS)
(Instituto Nacional Indigenista), 1995. 

Recent Articles:

"Reconceptualizing Liberal Education: The Importance of Ethnic
Studies," in Educational Record, vol 76, no 2,3 (Spring/Summer), 1995,
pp. 23-31. 

"Race, Civil Rights, and the New Immigrants: Nativism and the New World
Order," in Samuel L. Myers., Jr., ed., Civil Rights and Race Relations
in the Post Reagan-Bush Era (NY: Praeger, 1997) 

"Affirmative Action," Colorado Law Review, Vol. 68, Issue 4, Fall 1997.


"Latin America In Asia-Pacific Perspective," in Arif Dirlik, What is in
a Rim? Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea, second revised
edition. Roman and Littlefield. 1997. 

"The Chinese in Spanish America," in Lynn Pan, ed. The Encyclopedia of
the Chinese Overseas. Singapore: Landmark Books: 1998. American edition
to be published by Harvard U. Press in 1999. 

"The Chinese Diaspora," in George Leonard, ed., The Asian Pacific
American Heritage. Garland Press. 1998. 

"Cajeme," "Jose Maria Leyva," "Chinese," in Michael S. Werner, ed.,
Encyclopedia of Mexico. Fitzroy Dearborn. 1998. 

"The Chinese in Cuba," in Lingchi-Wang and Gungwu Wand, eds. The
Chinese Diaspora: Selected Essays. 2 vols. Times Academic Press. 1998. 

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