Koolie Woman - The Odyssey of Indenture Monday at Columbia University

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Vish M

In 1903, a young woman, alone and pregnant, sailed from India to Guiana as an indentured laborer. In her internationally-acclaimed new book, Gaiutra Bahadurembarks on a journey into the past to find her great-grandmother, excavating the repressed history of some quarter of a million other ****** women.

Please join the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and the Center for International History at Columbia University for an intimate conversation with Bahadur about constructing what Junot Diaz calls "An astonishing document . . . both a historical rescue mission and a profound meditation on family and womanhood."

Monday, December 2, 2013

6:00 - 7:30 PM

Columbia Journalism School - World Room

116th Street & Broadway

New York City

This event is free and open to the public

For more information, visit: http://bit.ly/17UnqIF

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Vish MSenior Member

I was hoping that this posting will engage a few intelligent discourses

Anyone on the BB!

11/29/137:19 PM

KariSenior Member

I'm expected to be at the Event

11/30/1310:49 AM

Former Member

Originally Posted by Kari:

I'm expected to be at the Event

Say hello to Gaiutra from me. I was hoping to be in New York on Monday but flight plans changed.

11/30/1312:14 PM

KariSenior Member

I was impressed with Ms Bahadur last night - articulate, insightful, modest and with an enlightening sense of humor. Listening to her, I didn't realize that widows were actively recruited to help correct the gender imbalance on the plantations. Gaiutra saught to highlight the trafficking back then more in terms of gender than race. Fascinating story told by her about her great-grand-mother.

The audience was mostly students, and I was encouraged to know of the interest by people in India of this deceptive migration to the Caribbean, South Africa, Mauritius, Fiji, etc.

12/3/1310:05 AM

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