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Book Talk: “Operation Pedro Pan: Childhood in the US-Cuban Cold War”
Operation Pedro Pan was the extraordinary undertaking by the Miami Catholic Diocese, federal and state offices, child welfare agencies, and anti-Castro Cubans to bring more than fourteen thousand unaccompanied children to the United States during the Cold War. Officially called the Unaccompanied Cuban Children’s Program, children without immediate family support in the United States—some 8,300…
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AfroLatin@s Now Conversaciones: Migrations & Black Erasure
Join us for a celebration of three recently released books that all talk about AfroLatinidad and Migrations. We will have a conversation with Dr. Kaysha Corinealdi author or “Panama in Black,” Dr. Milagros Denis-Rosario author of “Drops of Inclusivity” and Dr. Marisel Moreno, the author of “Crossing Waters,” hosted by Manuel Mendez, President of the…
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Call for Applications: 2023 Crossing Latinidades Summer Institute and Predoctoral Fellowship
CUNY is one of 21 members of the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities (HSRU)a national consortium that includes all the R1 (doctoral, research-intensive) universities in the U.S. that are also Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). Through a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation the Alliance is once again calling for proposals for the…
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Announcing The New Certificate Program in Latino Studies at Lehman College
The Certificate Program in Latino Studies is a fully online trilingual certificate open to Lehman students and the general public. There are no prerequisites for this program, and courses will be held in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, allowing people with language and nationality barriers to apply, attend online courses, and complete the credits necessary for…
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Latinos, Race, And Empire: A Talk By Juan González
As he prepares to move to Chicago, Juan González shares what he’s learned about democratic rights, racism, police abuse, and imperial control during more than 50 years as radical activist, acclaimed journalist, and historian of the Latinx experience. This farewell talk by González, co-host of Democracy Now! and a former New York Daily News columnist, extracts lessons from his time in the Young Lords in the 1960s,…
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