CU-Boulder English Professor Peter Michelson will use readings from his book "Pacific Plainsong" to illustrate the history of manifest destiny and the historical and moral implications of United States-American Indian relations on Thursday, May 4, at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Michelson's talk, "Pacific Plainsong, or Why Laramie's Diamond Horseshoe is a Chinese Restaurant," sponsored by the Center of the American West will be from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the University Memorial Center, room 235, and is free and open to the public.
Michelson's talk will investigate the fact that although immigrants, such as the Chinese, were exploited and discriminated against, they still fared better than American Indians, on whose land they built their restaurants. Along the way, Michelson also will argue against the vision of manifest destiny found in 19th century poet Walt Whitman's "Democratic Vistas."
For more information on the event, contact CAW Events Coordinator David Hoffman at (303) 735-3261.