Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Public Lecture: "Racialized Paths to Proletarianization: Myths about Black Economic Competition, Cheap Labor, and White Vulnerability"
2016-02-03 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard (African American Studies, UC Irvine)
The presentation discusses a key historiographical intervention about so-called “cheap labor” in WASTE OF A WHITE SKIN: THE CARNEGIE CORPORATION AND THE RACIAL LOGIC OF WHITE VULNERABILITY. What did calls for the protection of “civilized labor” and a “white wage” mean to the history of race and class in apartheid South Africa? How did depiction of African workers as “cheap” and “inefficient” laborers “encroaching on white jobs” characterize African women and men as having a purely ornamental function in the history of South African industrialization? What does this legacy suggest about contemporary post-apartheid struggle in South Africa?
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of WASTE OF A WHITE SKIN: THE CARNEGIE CORPORATION AND THE RACIAL LOGIC OF WHITE VULNERABILITY (University of California Press, 2015) and editor of the NATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW.
Sponsored by the IHC’s African Studies RFG, the Center for Black Studies Research, and the History Department

Willoughby-Herard1-Flyer, 3 Feb. 2016

Maurice Isserman, "The Rucksack Revolution: Mountaineering and American Culture, 1945-1963"
2016-02-05 13:00 - 15:00
Maurice Isserman writes pathbreaking books on the American left – and on mountaineering. In the latter category are Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes(2008, with Stewart Weaver); and Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering (2016). In the former can be found Which Side Were You On? The American Communist Party During the Second World War (1982); If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left (1987); America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s (2000, with Michael Kazin); and The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington (2000).

A chapter from Professor Isserman’s new book on American mountaineering can be found here: /sites/secure.lsit.ucsb.edu.hist.d7_labor/files/sitefiles/ContinentalDivide-Ch6.pdf
