Aaron Bobrow-Strain and Wendy Call

The Get Lit! Festival presents a reading by nonfiction writers Aaron Bobrow-Strain and Wendy Call.
Aaron Bobrow-Strain is an associate professor of politics at Whitman University, where he specializes in political economy of food, development, race, and agriculture in Latin America, among other topics. His first book Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and and Violence in Chiapas, was called one of the most important books about rural Latin America from the past twenty years. He'll be reading from his newest book, White Bread: Dreamworlds of the Store-Bought Loaf, which focuses on the history of white bread and how it has become so popular.

Wendy Call first visited the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the lush sliver of land connecting the Yucatan Peninsula to the rest of Mexico, in 1997. She was struck by how the people who lived there were affected by globalization and how they might have the keys to help the rest of the world survive it. Her book No Words for Welcome details the trips she made to this isolated part of the world and the research on how they have lived for hundreds of years. Over the ten years she wrote this book she saw farmland being paved for highways, oil spilled into rivers, and forests burned downed. Through it all however she saw the strength of a people.

Who: Aaron Bobrow-Strain and Wendy Call
When: Saturday, April 14 at 4:30 p.m.
Where: Riverpoint Campus, Phase I Building, Room 122
Cost: Free!
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