Dr. Maria Arquero de Alarcón will introduce Laura Pulido, the Collins Chair and Professor of Indigenous, Race, & Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. Pulido studies white supremacy, environmental justice, and cultural memory. She has written numerous books, including Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest (University of Arizona, 1996); Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles (University of California, 2006); and A People’s Guide to Los Angeles (with Laura Barraclough and Wendy Cheng) (University of California, 2012). She has received numerous honors from the Association of American Geographers, including the Distinguished Scholarship Honors and Presidential Achievement Award; Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly book in Geography; Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography; the Harold Rose Anti-Racism Award; and Ford and Guggenheim fellowships.
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