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Call for Applications
The Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies is accepting proposals for the CLACLS Summer Research Fellowships 2021. The Center will award multiple fellowships of up to $1,500 (partial awards may also be granted) to full-time students currently enrolled, and in good standing, in one of the doctoral programs at the Graduate Center, CUNY. The fellowships…
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Georgia On My Mind: On Voter Participation Rates by Race/Ethnicity in the 2020 Election and the Senate Runoff Scheduled for 2021
By Laird W. Bergad Distinguished Professor, Department of Latin American and Latino Studies, Lehman College Ph.D. Program in History, The Graduate Center, and Director of the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies, CLACLS The Georgia runoff election for two senatorial seats scheduled for January 5, 2021 may well determine the success, partial success, or…
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Book Talk: The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump.
In The Hispanic Republican, historian and political commentator Geraldo Cadava illuminates the history of the millions of Hispanic Republicans who, since the 1960s, have had a significant impact on national politics. Intertwining the little understood history of Hispanic Americans with a cultural study of how post–World War II Republican politicians actively courted the Hispanic vote…
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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…
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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…
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