Awaiting Their Feast: A Conversation about Latinx Food Workers and Activism
315 Pillsbury Drive SE
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Awaiting Their Feast: A Conversation about Latinx Food Workers and Activism
Please join the Immigration History Research Center for a conversation with Lori A Flores about her new book, Awaiting their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19. Opening remarks by José Luis Villaseñor Rangel of Tamales y Bicicletas
Reception at 4:30
Presentation at 5pm
Lori A. Flores is Associate Professor of History at Stony Brook University (SUNY), where she teaches courses in U.S., Latinx, labor, immigration, food, and borderlands history. She is the author of Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement (Yale, 2016) and the new book Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19 (UNC, 2025). She is also co-editor of The Academic’s Handbook (Duke, 2020) with Jocelyn Olcott. Her research and writing have been supported by institutions including the Russell Sage Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy.
José Luis Villaseñor is the son of Mexican immigrant parents and founder of Tamales y Bicicletas. José Luis works on food justice issues within his community of South Minneapolis. He inspires and leans on the use of urban farming and biking as tools for healing to decolonize our bodies, minds, and food systems; as an educator in radical-outdoor pedagogy, he believes that cultural empowerment and the reclaiming of our Indigenous technologies are the pillars that strengthen our families and our communities. José Luis is also a father of three boys and a founding member of South Side Bike Club. Tamales y Bicicletas is dedicated to strengthening our Latino and immigrant communities through bike projects, green farming, cultural empowerment, and environmental justice.
Co-sponsored by Chicano & Latino Studies, the Department of History, and the Center for Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender & Sexuality Studies (RIDGS)