Latino, Latina, Latinx: What’s In a Name? panel discussion. Professors George Gonzalez, Jennifer Carroccio Maldonado, and Rojo Robles shared some resources for more learning about the debates and considerations about the changing terms for peoples of Latin American descent: Luis … Continue reading Latinx: What’s In a Name? Resources
What do you know about Delores Huerta? Dolores Huerta (b. 1930) is a powerful labor organizer, Chicana civil rights leader, and feminist activist. In the 1960s, Dolores Huerta, along with César Chávez, united Mexican, Mexican-American and Filipino farmworkers and founded … Continue reading Delores Huerta
What was once known as Hispanic Heritage Week, began in 1968 when Civil Rights Activisms were reshaping the United States. The California Congressman from East Los Angeles, George E, Brown pushed for more recognition of the culture and history of … Continue reading Latino, Latina, Latinx History: Let’s Celebrate!
Join us as we celebrate Latinx Heritage Month! BLS will host an Open House on September 9, from 1PM -2PM. https://baruch.zoom.us/j/84955196946 Meeting ID: 849 5519 6946 Passcode: BLS2021 One tap mobile +16465588656,,84955196946# US (New York) Student leaders Osvaldo Garcia and … Continue reading BLS Open House: Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month
BLS Professor Regina Bernard recently spoke with Michelle and Suzzane Rousseau, cook book authors and owners of SummerHouse restaurant in Kingston, Jamaica. In honor of Caribbean Heritage Month, they spoke with Alumni about the rich variation of Caribbean foodways, they … Continue reading Caribbean Pride, Caribbean Food!
The Robert C. Weaver Society & SOMOS present a Caribbean Heritage Month Event In Conversation with the authors of Provisions: The Roots of Caribbean Cooking Tuesday, May 18, 2021 6:00PM – 7:30PM Zoom Join BLS Associate Professor … Continue reading The Roots of Caribbean Food–May 18 @6PM
Y’all might recall Professor Regina Bernard’s powerful essay, “Why We Can’t Breathe,” about George Floyd’s murder. Here’s a recent essay, “In Inhale,” about Derek Chauvin’s murder conviction. Both were published in 433. “In Inhale” by Regina Bernard-Carreno “I sit in … Continue reading “In Inhale” by Professor Regina Bernard
Adjunct Professor Zamir Ben Dan, and his colleagues who from the Black Attorneys of the Legal Aid Caucus in New York, published this editorial, “Racial Progress Needs Systemic Change, Not a Rare Conviction” in The New York Law Journal’s digital … Continue reading On Derek Chauvin’s Conviction
On April 20, 2021 at 6:00 pm the Black Studies Colloquium will delve into a conversation about Black Studies focusing on the work of our esteemed colleague, Zachariah Mampilly (Endowed Chair of International Affairs, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs). In this round table discussion, we … Continue reading Black Studies and Diaspora
Join us on Thursday April 15 @1PM for a conversation with Dr. Yomaira Figueroa Vasquez, a scholar of U.S. Latinx Caribbean, Afro-Latinx, and Afro-Hispanic literature and culture, and author of Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature. She will be in conversation with Baruch students … Continue reading Yomaira Figueroa Vasquez on Thursday, April 15 @1PM
