LACS Research Workshop - "Community of Crooks: World War II in a Caribbean Borderland"
When:
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM CT
Where: Crowe Hall, 3-130, Spanish & Portuguese Conf. Room, 1860 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Sarah Peters
17980
Group: Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Category: Multicultural & Diversity
Description:
Presented by Lina Britto, Assistant Professor History, Northwestern University
This paper examines how geopolitical rivalry between the United States and Germany turned the isolated Guajira peninsula -- the northernmost part of the Colombian Caribbean Coast -- into a theater of World War II, and heightened competition among networks of smugglers who traded with Nazi exporters, making rumor, intrigue, jealousy, and paranoia the warp and woof of the wartime social fabric.