The UMass Dartmouth Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives and theCenter for Portuguese Studies and Cultureproudly present

A talk by Dr. Miguel MonizFLAD/Brown Visiting Professor in Portuguese Studies at Brown University

Thursday, January 30, 2020 11am–12:30pm

UMass Dartmouth Main Campus Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives Park in Lot 13

For further information, 508-910-6888 prioux@umassd.edu

Eula Mendes: Portuguese migrant labor activism and the criminalization of protest

Miguel Moniz is a researcher at the Center for

Anthropological Research (CRIA) at ISCTE-Instituto

Universitário de Lisboa. Moniz studies racialization

and ethnic group formation. He examines the histories

of migrant mobility, settlement, marginalization and

efforts at civic inclusion among Portuguese-speaking

geographies with a focus on New England.

This talk looks at the life of

Eulalia “Eula” Mendes, and

other migrant labor leaders

from Portugal and their early

contribution to the American

labor movement. The political

marginalization and

criminalization of migrant labor

activism made Eula Mendes a

key figure in—and ultimately a

martyr of—the fight for not

only workers, but also for

migrant civic rights.