Ronny Regev, History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "'We Want No More Economic Islands': The Mobilization of the Black Consumer Market in the Postwar U.S."

Event Date: 

Friday, February 14, 2020 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm

Event Location: 

  • 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building

Professor Regev is the author of Working in Hollywood: How the Studio System Turned Creativity into Modern Labor (2018). She is a scholar of modern popular culture and its intersection with mass media industries and U.S. labor relations. Sponsored by the UCSB Department of History; the Initiative for the Study of Race, Religion, and Revolution; the Department of Black Studies; the Policy History Program, and the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.