Award-winning Chicano writer to read at Notre Dame

Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the Institute for Latino Studies, is pleased to present an evening with Rigoberto González. Author and editor of seventeen books in multiple genres, and winner of numerous awards, González will be reading from his work on Wednesday, April 19 at 7:30 PM in the Hesburgh Center for International Studies Auditorium with a pre-event reception to take place at 6:15 PM in the west lounge on the second floor of McKenna Hall.…

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Jennifer Jones is an assistant professor of sociology and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her research uses qualitative methods to explore increasing migration, the growing multiracial population, and shifting social relations between and within racial groups. In this video, she discusses her work on how race relations are changing and what race means for politics and inequality.

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On March 26, three Latino Studies Faculty, Tatiana Botero, Anne Garcia-Romero and Karen Richman took 45 of their students to Chicago to experience Latin American Street cuisine at the new theme restaurant, Latinicity, and to see a play by an award-winning Latina playwright at the Goodman Theatre. In Destiny of Desire,…

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Institute for Latino Studies co-director, Luis R. Fraga shares his thoughts on the impact of Hispanics on the American Catholic church as well as American at large.  He explores the reasons for the struggle of integration and offers solutions for the Catholic schools to build cultural understandings.  …

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‘We’re there to walk with them on this journey’ Church seeks to accompany students, families, communities who fear Trump immigration policies"

 

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RISE OF THE LATINA

Latinas “have a huge appetite” for financial information... The women, especially foreign-born immigrants, find the Resurrection Project classes empowering and workshops often are full. 

 

 

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Why These Trump Voters Are Sticking Up For An Undocumented Neighbor

By: Pete Buttigieg 

 

"Tearing apart a community, a business, and a family will make America worse off, every time. Americans of good will, regardless of party, are demanding a better way."…

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Open letter from two professors of color

“As professors of color, we regularly face the realities exposed by Trump’s hate speech and his administration’s... In fact, to do our jobs well, we must challenge the assumptions that made hate speech a winning campaign strategy."…

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Educate All Children to Learn, Thrive and Grow
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”Dorene Dominguez ’85
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Chair, The Dominguez Dream

– Nelson Mandela

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What Legacy Do We Want to Leave Our Children and Grandchildren?

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The Institute for Latino Studies' Co-director Luis Fraga has been working in collaboration with the Alliance for Catholic Education and Holy Cross grade school to initiate the area's first Catholic school Spanish-English immersion program.  

 

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New Immersion Track at Holy Cross Grade School holds March 15 Open House

SOUTH BEND —In collaboration with the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies and the Alliance for Catholic Education, Holy Cross Grade School is launching a Spanish-English Immersion program this Fall at the pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten levels.…

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Francisco Aragón, director of Letras Latinas, the Institute for Latino Studies’ literary initiative, has been named a finalist for the 2017 Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism, given by Split This Rock, a national poetry organization based in Washington, D.C. Aragón is one of four finalists who will be honored at a gala ceremony and reading at the Arts Club of Washington on the evening of April 21. The winner will be announced the week of March 13.…

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The University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, in collaboration with the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, the College of Arts and Letters and the Department of Film, Television and Theatre, is seeking writers to participate in a one-week playwriting workshop, in the tradition of award-winning playwright Maria Irene Fornés, to be held in downtown Chicago.…

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The Borderlands and Latino/a Studies 2017-2018 Call for Proposals is now OPEN. Proposals for 2017-2018 will be accepted until June 1, 2017.

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Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the ILS, has joined twenty-two other nonprofit poetry organizations from across the United States to form a Poetry Coalition, which will present programs on the theme “Because We Come From Everything: Poetry & Migration” throughout the month of March. The theme borrows a line from U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera’s poem, “Borderbus.”…

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Registration is now open for the April 13^th Latino forum, Shared Opportunity, Shared Success, hosted by ICI, Goshen College, and the University of Notre Dame. 

 Additional information and a registration link may be found here: http://bit.ly/2lCA8MH.  We will send you a reminder, including a copy of the logistical details on the registration form, the week before the forum.…

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Christine M. Maziar will serve as member-at-large on the Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering section committee, Agustin Fuentes will serve as Chair-elect on the Anthropology section committee and Richard Taylor will serve as Council Delegate on the Pharmaceutical Sciences section committee.

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ILS faculty fellow Jason Ruiz quoted, following November's presidential election...

"People all over the country have been inspired to start thinking about what special roles universities play in a political climate that’s hostile to undocumented people, including undocumented students."…

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