Guest Lecture: Teaching Latinx Atlanta History

Yami Rodriguez
101 LeConte Hall

Iliana (Yami) Rodriquez is a doctoral candidate in American Studies at Yale University. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on Latinx history, migration, culture, and labor within the southern United States. This academic year she is a predoctoral fellow at Emory's James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, where she is completing her dissertation, "Constructing Mexican Atlanta, 1980-2016."  

a picture of the cover of one of Atlanta's first Latinx directories

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