Llana Barber

she/her

History

Rm 1110 Heller Hall

271 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

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Llana Barber is a scholar of immigration and Latine history with a focus on the Caribbean diaspora.

Publications

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Publications

Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000 (University of North Carolina Press, 2017)
“Anti-Black Racism and the Nativist State,” Journal of American Ethnic History, July 2023
“Latine Rebellions and Why They Matter,” The American Historian, December 2021
“‘This Would Be a Ghost Town’: Urban Crisis and Latino Migration in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000,” Confronting Urban Legacy: Rediscovering Hartford and New England’s Forgotten Cities, Xiangming Chen and Nick Bacon, eds. (Lexington Press, 2013). Reprinted in the Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Winter 2018

Awards

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SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2022
Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize from the New England American Studies Association, 2018
Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book in North American Urban History from the Urban History Association, 2017