Book Talk: Selfa A. Chew presents "Uprooting Community: Japanese Mexicans, WWII and US-Mexico Borderlands" with special guest Miguel Juárez

The CSRC welcomes Selfa A. Chew, who will discuss her latest book, Uprooting Community: Japanese Mexicans, WWII and US-Mexico Borderlands (University of Arizona, 2015). The  book examines the difficult circumstances of Japanese Mexicans during World War II. Through new archival discoveries and oral histories, the author challenges the notion that Japanese Mexicans enjoyed the protection of the Mexican government during the war and argues that they were instead victims to racial prejudices. Chew teaches classes on US history, Afro-Mexican history, the Asian diaspora in Latin America, and African American history at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and New Mexico State University. Joining Chew will be Miguel Juárez, a doctoral candidate at UTEP. 

SELFA A. CHEW holds an MFA in creative writing and a PhD in borderlands history from UTEP. She currently teaches United States history, Afro-Mexican history, the Asian diaspora in Latin America, and African American history at UTEP and New Mexico State University.

MIGUEL JUÁREZ is a doctoral candidate in history at UTEP. In 2008, he was an associate librarian at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.

All CSRC events are free and do not require an RSVP unless otherwise noted. Programs are subject to change. All-day parking and short-term parking (payable at pay stations) are available in Lots 2, 3 or 4 (enter the campus at Hilgard and Westholme avenues). First 5 people to RSVP to clentz@chicano.ucla.edu will receive free parking. 

A recording of this event can be found on the CSRC YouTube channel.