Ismael García-Colón is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the College of Staten Island and CUNY Graduate Center. He is a historical and political anthropologist with interests in political economy and oral history, and the author of Land Reform in Puerto Rico: Modernizing the Colonial State.

Event Recap

On March 11, 2020, The Latinx Project hosted a presentation by Ismael García Colón, whose new book, Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire: Puerto Rican Workers on U.S. Farms, focuses on the “experiences of Puerto Rican migrant workers in continental U.S. agriculture in the twentieth century.”