Empire of Rubber: A virtual book launch conversation with Gregg Mitman, Evelynn Hammonds, and Paul Farmer

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Thursday, October 21, 2021, 1:00pm

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Join us for a conversation on racial capitalism, ecological injustice, and medical racism focused on the history of Firestone Tire & Rubber Company and its efforts to turn Liberia, founded in 1847 as a free Black republic, into America’s rubber empire.

ORGANIZER: Harvard Medical School - Global Health and Social Medicine

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