Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Cabo Verdean Care Workers in Portugal

Join us for a lecture by Celeste Curington, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. Curington is an intersectional scholar with diverse research interests on the African Diaspora in the United States and Europe and other communities of color. Her forthcoming book, Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Gender and Care Work in Portugal, examines the everyday lives of an African descendant care service workforce in an ostensibly “anti-racial” Europe and against the backdrop of the Portuguese colonial empire.

This event takes place as part of the Center for the Study of Europe's Decentering Europe initiative, the aim of which is to promote a critical understanding of Europe through its complex heritage, which owes its richness to countless contributions from other regions of the world, including Africa. In an increasingly multipolar world, we believe Europe can only be understood in relation to other sites of socio-cultural production, political engagement, and economic transformation.

Co-sponsored by the African Studies Center