América First: the Americas and the New Monroe Doctrine

"América First" explores the varied and formative roles the Americas--from Greenland to Patagonia--played, and continue to play, in the construction of US global power, from the nineteenth century to the present. Presentations will address the dependency between political, economic, racial, gender, and ethnic formations between North and Latin America, and how they are mediated through cross-regional migration of people, ideas, commodities. Our aim, amid the rise of a hemispheric right-wing coalition and left-wing resistance, is to address the continuities and ruptures, the historical presence, of the Monroe Doctrine across continental politics.

Sponsored by the Edward J. Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund