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Session 2—Slavery in the Spanish Empire: The Philippines and the Southwest Borderlands
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James F. Brooks, Ramón A. Gutiérrez, Tatiana Seijas, Gabrielle Tayac This presentation explores how systems of Indian bondage, bringing people and goods between the Asia Pacific, North America, and Europe, were interconnected. This panel will also explore the motivations for and systems of Native bondage in the Southwest borderlands. --------------------- James F. Brooks is an interdisciplinary scholar of the Indigenous and colonial past, and has held professorial appointments at the University of Maryland, UC Santa Barbara, and UC Berkeley, as well as fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, and the School for Advanced Research (SAR) in Santa Fe. Between 2005 and 2013 he served as president of SAR. He also chaired the Board of Directors of the Western National Parks Association, which supports research, preservation, and education in 67 National Parks, including Coronado National Memorial, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, and Channel Islands National Park. Brooks is the recipient of numerous national awards for scholarly excellence, including the “Triple Crown” (Bancroft, Parkman, and Turner Prizes) for Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands. His Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awat’ovi Massacre (2016) garnered the Caughey Prize for most distinguished book on the history of the American West. ------------------- Ramón A. Gutiérrez, PhD, is the Preston and Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of U.S. History and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many works, including the multiple-prizewinning When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500–1846 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991). He has edited issues of several of the field’s most prominent journals on topics of gender and sexuality and has several coauthored works, most recently Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method, and Practice (University of California Press, 2019) with Natalia Molina and Daniel HoSang, the forthcoming A Field Guide to White Supremacy with Kathleen Belew (University of California Press 2021), and New Mexico's Moses: Reies López Tijerina and the Religious Origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (in press). Gutiérrez is a preeminent scholar in Latina/o, borderlands, U.S. western history, and colonial Latin America. ---------------- Tatiana Seijas, PhD, is associate professor of history at Rutgers University. She writes about the history of freedom and slavery, long-distance trade, global connections, and urban economies. She is currently working on two manuscripts. Global Mexico City in the Seventeenth Century is a new economic history of one of the early modern world’s greatest entrepôts centered on the lives of ordinary people. First Routes: Indigenous Trade and Travel in North America examines the history of Native merchants who forged routes of exchange between the Rio Grande Valley and the Mesoamerican highlands. -------------------- Gabrielle Tayac, PhD, session moderator, a member of the Piscataway Indian Nation, is an activist scholar committed to empowering Indigenous perspectives. She earned her PhD and MA in sociology from Harvard University and her BS in social work and American Indian Studies from Cornell University. Her scholarly research focuses on hemispheric American Indian identity, multiracialism, Indigenous religions, and social movements, and she maintains a regional specialization in the Chesapeake Bay. Tayac served on NMAI's staff for eighteen years as an educator, historian, and curator. She engages deeply in community relationships and public discourse. She took a two-year journey to uplift the voices of Indigenous elder women leaders, sponsored by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, prior to settling back at home. Tayac is now an associate professor of public history at George Mason University.
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1 hr 36 min 45 sec
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