Center for InterAmerican Studies

We are cordially inviting you to our next IAS colloquium on Tuesday, May 13th from 18 to 20hs (CET) at Bielefeld University. The talk is a cooperation with the Global- und Verflechtungsgeschichte Colloqium and will be held in X-Building A2-103.

"The Portuguese Diaspora in California: Migration Networks, Identity Formation and Knowledge Transfer (19th and 20th Century)". Violeta Mausfeld (Bielefeld University).

Dianne Violeta Mausfeld is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for InterAmerican Studies at Bielefeld University. Violeta obtained her PhD at the University of Bern and is currently working on a postdoc project about Portuguese labor migration in California and its impact on the local fishing industry. In her first book (forthcoming, San Diego State University Press), she examines the history of Chicano rap in Los Angeles, a subgenre of gangster rap that was fostered by increased migration from Mexico and Latin America and extreme gang violence in Greater L.A. Violeta is interested in history and popular culture of the Americas, inter-American migration flows, and the interplay between popular music and history. In her research, she combines approaches from oral history, digital ethnography, and the analysis of audiovisual sources, as well as archival material such as newspapers and magazines.