But Some of Us Are BRAVE - 1 night only special event!

But Some of Us Are BRAVE: Narratives of Scholarship, Resistance, and Activism by Women & Womxn of color

Join us for this special one lecture return of the Brave Series: Reading Race and Gender in Yucatán's "Caste War" with Sarah Bey-West, Ph.D.

Dr. Bey-West returns to Puget Sound, co-creator of the Brave series in 2018, to share their own research as a brave scholar. Their anticipated book, Caste War Textualities: Gender, Race, Land, and Maya, will be at the center of this lecture. An academic exploration of the literary and historical register of the Yucatán peninsula from the nineteenth century to the contemporary, Dr. Bey-West's corpus is considered through the lens of the so-called “Caste War”—a 55-year insurrection usually articulated in terms of a binary race war with white yucatecos on one side and Indigenous Mayas on the other. Their book challenges how discursively, the Caste War brought about forms of racial and gendered discourse that sought and seeks to displace the motivations of the war and annul the goals of the rebellion itself.

Dr. Bey-West is core faculty in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies; and is affiliated faculty in Latinx and Latin American Studies at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, at the rank of Assistant Professor.

This series was launched in 2018 and it held 3 sets of lectures before being discontinued in 2021 by co-creator, Dr. LaToya Brackett, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, due to issues with sustainability. This special lecture is made possible by Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, Dr. Valeria Ochoa's desired collaboration with African American Studies, and the funding she is able to provide.

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