Screening of “Red Mesa” & discussion with Stephen Pitti, Director of Yale Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration
Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, LA CASA and Latin American Student Organization at Yale present the screening of “Red Mesa,” on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 7.30pm at Slifka Center (80 Wall Street, New Haven CT, 06511). Stephen Pitti, the Master of Ezra Stiles College and Director of Yale’s Program in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, will be commenting on the film and leading a Q&A.
* Stephen Pitti – Bio *
Stephen Pitti is a Professor of History & American Studies at Yale, as well as Director of the Program in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and Master of Ezra Stiles College. Professor Pitti received his PhD from Stanford University in 1998 and is the author of “The Devil in Silicon Valley: Race, Mexican Americans, and Northern California” (2003) as well as articles on Chicano history and historiography. He is currently working on two book projects: “The World of Céasar Chávez” (forthcoming, Yale University Press) and “Leaving California: Race from the Golden State” (in process). He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Latino Studies, Ethnic Studies, Western History, 20th-century immigration, civil rights, and related subjects. He also serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Yale’s American Studies Program. He directs the Latina/o History Project, which explores ethnic Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban, and other Latino histories in the United States, their links and divisions, their diversity, and their cultures and politics.
For more information, go to: www.slifkacenter.org, or contact Ilana Lapid at: ilana.lapid@yale.edu
