Description:

Given the expansion and diversification of our diasporic national communities in Latino USA, this event explores the emerging activisms, agency, and social contributions of Dominicanos, Central Americans, Colombianos, and Peruvians in the debates about what it means to be a US Latino. In this light, the invited speakers will highlight the ways in which these communities not only expand our notions of a collective Latino entity and of established notions of race and ethnicity in the U.S., but also discuss the challenges that these constituencies face within the larger context of established Latino groups, thus contributing to our understandings of the social and cultural dynamics behind the term “Latinidad.”

Co-sponsored by: The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Alumnae of Northwestern University, Buffett Institute for Global Studies, Department of African American Studies, Department of Sociology, Department of English, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Latina and Latino Studies Program, Program in American Studies, and the Weinberg College of Liberal Arts and Sciences