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<font color="#FF0000"><b><i>Modern Times, Rural Places:<br>
Seminar Series at MIT<br>
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</i></font><font size=5 color="#FF0000">Karl Jacoby<br>
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History<br>
Brown University<br>
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</font><font size=5 color="#FF0000"><b>Between North and South: The
Alternative Borderlands of William H. Ellis<br>
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</font><font color="#FF0000">Friday, November 14, 2003<br>
2:30 to 4:30 pm<br>
MIT, Building E51 Room 095<br>
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During the late nineteenth century, Mexico and the United States engaged
in a mutual effort to transform the relatively undefined border region
between them into a stable international boundary. Although this
process was designed to strengthen the state control of space on both
sides of the border, it ironically complicated this project by creating
new transnational linkages between the two countries. “Between
North and South” will reveal some of the unexpected consequences of the
new transnational framework that developed between Latin America and
Anglo America during the late nineteenth century by exploring the efforts
of William H. Ellis, an African-American entrepreneur from southern
Texas, to create a homeland in northern Mexico for African Americans
fleeing the Jim Crow South during the late nineteenth century.
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