Author: Lidia Hernández Tapia

Lidia Hernández Tapia (she/her)

  • Book Launch: Dona Ivone Lara’s Sorriso Negro by Mila Burns

    More than simply a paragon of Brazilian samba, Dona (Lady) Ivone Lara’s 1981 Sorriso Negro (translated to Black Smile) is an album deeply embedded in the political and social tensions of its time. Released less than two years after the Brazilian military dictatorship approved the Lei de Anistia (the “Opening” that put Brazil on a…

  • Marriage Rates among Latinos on the Decline

    A New Report from the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY Tracks the Partnership Status Rates in the United States by Race and Ethnicity Contact: E-mail: clacls@gc.cuny.edu NEW YORK, March 1, 2022—The Graduate Center of The City University of New York’s Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies (CLACLS)…

  • Crossing Latinidades: Emerging Scholars and New Comparative Directions

    Crossing Latinidades: Emerging Scholars and New Comparative DirectionsCUNY is one of 16 members of a national consortium that includes all of the R1 (doctoral, research-intensive) universities in the U.S. that are also Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), currently 16 in number. The consortium, which is based at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), has received funding from…

  • César J. Ayala y Laird W. Bergad ganan el Premio Manuel Moreno Fraginals de la AHEC

      El pasado 2 de noviembre, el jurado del Premio Manuel Moreno Fraginals, convocado por la Asociación de Historia Económica del Caribe (AHEC) y compuesto por Herbert S. Klein, Carlos Marichal, Guy Pierre, Frank Moya Pons y José Antonio Piqueras otorgó esta distinción en su edición de 2021 a la obra Agrarian Puerto Rico. Reconsidering Rural Economy…

  • Call for Applications

    The Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies is pleased to offer Graduate Student Fellowships for the 2021—2022 Academic Year in the amount of $5,000 each. Fellows will be expected to work approximately 2-4 hours per week during the Fall and Spring semesters, and to produce a report for the Latino Data Project. This call…