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Why Latinx Studies?
Latina and Latino Studies focuses on the historic and contemporary circumstances that shape Latina and Latino lives, spaces, subjectivities, and politics in the United States. This field encompasses diverse communities and nationalities while also offering critical attention to transnational dynamics or to how Latinas and Latinos relate and connect to cultural or geographical origins across the Americas. Similar to other race/ethnic studies fields, Latina and Latino Studies has origins outside of universities. To a large extent, it originated in social movements led by organizers, thinkers, artists, students, workers and teachers who were opposed to legacies of racial injustice, ethnic prejudice, exploitation, criminalization and neglect.
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Crossing Waters: escrituras afrolatinoamericanas. Una conversació...
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM, Off-Campus
The authors Kianny Antigua and Velia Vidal will dialogue about her works with Andrea Change and Mary Hawley. “enajenada, de Kianny Anti...
“Juntando Orillas”: Bridging Afro-Diasporic Voices Through Litera...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
Building on a partnership between two cultural initiatives, this panel will discuss the tensions between distinction and community, col...