Lecture: Fernando Tormos-Aponte presents “The Politics of Survival: Racial Geographies of Capitalism in Post-Disaster Puerto Rico”

Join us for a lecture by Fernando Tormos-Aponte, who will discuss the rebuild of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.

Fernando Tormos-Aponte is a postdoctoral fellow with the Scholars Strategy Network and a research
fellow of the Southern Methodist University Latino Center. His research focuses on how social
movements push governments and corporations to address issues of inequality.

This event is organized by the Institure for Research on Labor and Employment, and co-sponsored by the Chicano Studies Research Center.

This event is free and open to the public.