[E&S-seminars] Modern Times, Rural Place Seminar 11-14-2003

[Margo Collett]

Modern Times, Rural Places:
Seminar Series at MIT

Karl Jacoby
Associate Professor of History
  Brown University

Between North and South:  The Alternative Borderlands of William H. Ellis

Friday, November 14, 2003
2:30 to 4:30 pm
MIT, Building E51 Room 095

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.


Sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and the Program in Science, Technology, 
and Society

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