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Seeds of Justice: How Manifest Destiny Changed the Color of Labor
November 13, 2022 @ 4:00 pm
Attend the third virtual lecture in the Seeds of Justice series at the Episcopal Church of St. Martin on Sunday, Nov. 13 @ 4p.
Register in advance for the event here: [https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sdOmgpjssH9wZg6WMbo4T4J2UN9_7vECh]
Manifest Destiny as a doctrine of white expansion ironically required the introduction of more people of color into the United States. The shortage of white labor on the Pacific Coast and Hawaii to build the region’s economy required the serial recruitment of labor from Asia from the 1850s to the 1930s. This was followed by the primary reliance on Mexican labor until post-WWII. Immigrant labor was crucial in the development of mining, transportation, industry, and agriculture. Exploitation of this labor laid not only the foundations of U.S. immigration law but also complicated the binary white/black racial classification, both locally and nationally.
The goals of our Land-Based Ministry are in keeping with three of the primary mission priorities of the Episcopal Church: racial reconciliation, evangelism, and creation care. As such, in addition to the education series, we will continue to introduce activities and practices that cultivate and enrich both the soil and the community.
The talk will be led by John M. Liu, Professor Emeritus in Depts. of Asian American Studies and Sociology at UC Irvine.