{"id":11979,"date":"2021-03-08T13:05:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T18:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=11979"},"modified":"2021-03-08T13:05:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T18:05:34","slug":"laura-prieto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/laura-prieto\/","title":{"rendered":"Event | \u201cJust Like the Men\u201d: The 19th Amendment and the Racial Legacies of Women\u2019s Suffrage with Laura Prieto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/03\/unnamed-248x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/03\/unnamed-248x300.png 248w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/03\/unnamed-848x1024.png 848w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/03\/unnamed.png 984w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Library invites you to join us via Zoom for a talk by Laura R. Prieto on <strong>Thursday, March 18 at 12 p.m.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/brown.zoom.us\/j\/93329994617\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/brown.zoom.us\/j\/93329994617\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Join the talk.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although national women\u2019s suffrage organizations declared victory with the Nineteenth Amendment, many women in the United States continued to be denied the right to vote for decades afterwards. This talk explores why and how the ballot remained limited to white, native-born U.S. citizens, in 1920, while Black women and men in the South, colonized subjects in Puerto Rico and the Philippines, and others had to continue their struggle for political equality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Laura Prieto<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Laura R. Prieto (B.A., Wellesley College; A.M., Ph.D., Brown University) is the Alumni Chair in Public Humanities and a Professor of History at Simmons University in Boston. She teaches American history, gender and women\u2019s history, public memory, and methodology. Her current research studies colonizing and colonized women across U.S. empire in the Pacific and Caribbean. She has written on transnational nurses, Protestant missionaries, anti-imperialists, and suffragists from the 1890s through the 1940s. Her earlier books include <em>At Home in the Studio: The Professionalization of Women Artists in America<\/em> and <em>Crossings and Encounters: Race, Gender, and Sexualities in the Atlantic World <\/em>(co-edited with Stephen R. Berry).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This talk is open to the public and will be captioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Library invites you to join us via Zoom for a talk by Laura R. Prieto on Thursday, March 18 at 12 p.m. Join the talk. Although national women\u2019s suffrage organizations declared victory with the Nineteenth Amendment, many women in the United States continued to be denied the right to vote for decades afterwards. 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