Participant Info
- First Name
- Llana
- Last Name
- Barber
- Country
- United States
- State
- barberl@umn.edu
- Affiliation
- University of Minnesota
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Immigration history; Urban history; Latinx history; Caribbean migration; Dominican migration; Haitian migration; Late 20th-century US history; American empire
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
Llana Barber is the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair of Immigration History and the director of the Immigration History Research Center. She is a scholar of immigration and Latine history with a focus on the Caribbean diaspora. Her first book, Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000 (UNC Press, 2017), explored the history of New England’s first Latine-majority city. This work emphasized the impact of deindustrialization and suburbanization on Lawrence, Massachusetts, and the Puerto Rican and Dominican activism that transformed the city. Latino City won the Kenneth Jackson Award from the Urban History Association, and the Lois P. Rudnick Prize from the New England American Studies Association.
Her current research project documents Haitian migration to the United States, Dominican Republic, and Bahamas in the late 20th century, and militarized efforts to exclude Haitian asylum seekers. Barber’s work investigates the impact of anti-Black racism on migrant experiences. Her article, “Anti-Black Racism and the Nativist State” (JAEH, 2023) placed Black mobility and anti-Black racism at the center of the history of US immigration restriction from the colonial era through the present. Barber joined the University of Minnesota from the State University of New York at Old Westbury, where she received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. She serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Latinx Histories series at the University of North Carolina Press and recently joined the Editorial Board for the Journal of American Ethnic History, the official journal of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.
- Recent Publications
Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000 (University of North Carolina Press, 2017)
“Anti-Black Racism and the Nativist State” (Journal of American Ethnic History, 2023)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- Caribbean, North America
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Migration & Immigration, Race, Urban History
