Owen MacDonald, "Caribbean Amazônia as Black Studies"

September 2, 2026
In this talk, History PhD candidate, former Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies Fellow, and HRI graduate fellow  Owen MacDonald explains his dissertation project,  “Caribbean Amazônia: Labor on the Madeira-Mamoré Railway and the Making of Race, Gender, and Empire in Northwestern Brazil, 1870-1943,” within the context of African Diaspora and Afro-Latin American Studies.