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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Troop Movements: Labor\, Race\, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II-- Tejasvi Nagaraja in conversation with Robin D.G. Kelley
DESCRIPTION:Date and Time: October 28\, 2026\, 4 pm \nLocation: Bunche Hall 6275 \nJoin the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE)\, UCLA Department of History and UCLA Department of Labor Studies for a book talk with author Tejasvi Nagaraja and Robin D.G. Kelley\, professor of history and labor studies. Nagaraja will present his book\, Troop Movements\, which explores how mass mobilization for World War II catalyzed the political movements that defined the postwar period\, linking racial\, economic and international issues. \n\nSpeakers:\nTejasvi Nagaraja: Tejasvi Nagaraja is Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University’s ILR School. He received his Ph.D. from New York University\, and has held fellowships at Harvard University\, the New School and the New York Historical Society. His writing has been published in the journal American Historical Review. \nRobin D.G. Kelley: Robin D. G. Kelley is a Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA.  Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, he is the recipient of many awards and fellowships\, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Freedom Scholar Award.  His books include the prize-winning Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Free Press\, 2009); Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Beacon Press\, 2002\, new ed. 2022); Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (University of North Carolina Press\, 1990\, new ed. 2015); Race Rebels: Culture\, Politics\, and the Black Working Class (Free Press\, 1994); Three Strikes: The Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century (Beacon Press\, 2001); Into the Fire: African Americans Since 1970  (New York: Oxford University Press\, 1996). \n  \n 
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/troop-movements/
LOCATION:History Conference Room\, 6275 Bunche Hall
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