Latino/a Pluralities: Ways to Imagine the Community
This lecture by Silvio Torres-Saillant will invite reflection on the difficulty of thinking of the large U.S. Hispanic population as one single ethnic group given its diverse national origins, discrete histories, particular cultural backgrounds, distinct racial heritages and different manners of incorporation into U.S. society.
Silvio Torres-Saillant is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Latino-Latin American Studies Program in Syracuse University. He is considered a top scholar in Caribbean studies.
He is also the founding director of Dominican Studies Institute at CUNY and co-director for Latino Research, a consortium of 14 Latino research centers at major universities in the U.S.
This event is sponsored by the Casa Dominicana, the Center for Latino American and Caribbean Studies and the Latin American Cultural Center.