How do migrant politics in the United States shape lives at home? How do politics in the Third World shape migrant lives in the United States? Columbia University professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, will be joined by Austin activist Carlos Perez de Alejo, co-editor of Presente!: Latin@ Immigrant Voices in the Struggle for Racial Justice / Voces Inmigranted Latin@s en la Lucha por la Justicia Racial, in a dialogue about the ways collective actions ‘here’ and ‘there’ trouble and complicate life ‘here’ and ‘there.’

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Location: MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop, Austin, 78751