Racism, White Privilege and Coalition Politics: A Transnational Dialogue with Joao Costa Vargas & Charles R. Hale

A Conversation on Global White Supremacy, Activism and Grassroots Alternatives to Neo-Liberalism

Charles R. Hale, professor of anthropology at UT-Austin and author of Mas Que un Indio: Racial Ambivalence & the Paradox of Multi-culturalism in Guatemala, will begin with a reflection on his work on race and ethnicity in Guatemala and Nicaragua.

Joao Costa Vargas, ass't professor of anthropology at UT-Austin and author of "Catching Hell in the City of Angels: Life and Meanings of Blackness in South Central Los Angeles will talk about the organized efforts of African-diasporic anti-racists in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro.

Both speakers will be available to sign books after the talk.