Coffee and Conversation with Rose Cuison-Villazor
Elmer L Andersen Library, 222 21st Ave S
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
UMN Graduate and Undergraduate students, join us for an informal conversation with Prof. Cuison-Villazor to discuss her work on Forbidden Love: Race, Citizenship and The American Family.
Forbidden Love highlights the ways that military, immigration, and other federal officials restricted the ability of Japanese women and American men to marry during the U.S. government’s occupation of Japan (1945 to 1952). In so doing, Forbidden Love reveals the federal government’s central role, alongside state actors, in obstructing interracial marriages and reinforcing a racial caste system in the United States. Using a complex web of immigration laws, military policies, and citizenship rules, the federal government actively policed the borders of the heart—and what it meant to be a family, a citizen, and an American.
You are invited to register for the lecture and reception on Wednesday, Feb. 5, but attendance is not necessary to attend the coffee.
Rose Cuison-Villazor is Professor of Law and Chancellor's Social Justice Scholar and Director of the Rutgers Center for Immigrant Justice at Rutgers Law School.