Author: Lidia Hernández Tapia

Lidia Hernández Tapia (she/her)

  • Latino Data Project: Call for Applications 2020

    The Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies is pleased to offer three Latino Data Project (LDP) Fellowships for the 2020‐2021 Academic Year in the amount of $5,000 each. All Fellows will be expected to work approximately 2‐4 hours per week during the rest of the Fall and the Spring semesters (strictly virtual). The Fellows must be currently…

  • Book Launch: Agrarian Puerto Rico: Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899–1940

    In this book the authors challenge a wide range of well-established myths about the social and economic history of Puerto Rico in the first four decades of the U.S. colonial control over the island. Using a database of tax records for ten municipalities in the sugar, tobacco and coffee producing zones of Puerto Rico, gathered…

  • Virtual Event: Building a Black Organization in a ‘White’ Nation

    Virtual Event: Building a Black Organization in a ‘White’ Nation: The Creation of Argentina’s First Afro-descendant Legal Aid Organization Thursday, September 17th Time: 6:00- 7:30 PM About this Event In this informal conversation Professor Judith Anderson and Afro-Argentine lawyer and activist Madoda Ntaka discuss the process of creating an organization that assists Afro-descendants in Argentina…

  • New LDP Report: Gentrification and the South Bronx

    The Latino and non-Hispanic black populations in the South Bronx are still the overwhelming majority, despite increasing worry about gentrification in the area. Want to learn more about other sociodemographic trends studied in the report? Click on the full report here and the press release here. Read More

  • La mitad de los latinos de NYC vive fuera del área metropolitana

    La población latina en el área metropolitana de la ciudad de Nueva York ha alcanzado un hito demográfico importante: la mitad de los latinos del área ahora viven fuera de los cinco distritos, según una investigación recientemente publicada.  La mitad de los latinos que viven en el área metropolitana está distribuida así: 26 por ciento…