Category Archives: Latin America

Univision Creates Immigration Archive ‘Generación América’ To Document Latino Experiences

Posted on November 20, 2012 by jgreen

NEW YORK — The Spanish-language media company Univision and one of its top advertisers are encouraging Hispanics to share their stories about establishing new lives in the United States for an immigrant archive. The Univision network will kick off the … Continue reading →

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Wind Symphony to Perform Saturday

Posted on May 2, 2012 by jgreen

The Binghamton University Wind Symphony, conducted by Robert Smith, will celebrate Mexico’s Independence Day with the “Cinco de Mayo” concert at 3 p.m. Saturday, May 5, in the AC-Chamber Hall with works by native Mexican composers as well as compositions by American … Continue reading →

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Latin American & Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives Roundtable newsletter

Posted on January 7, 2009 by jgreen

The very first issue of the Memoria/Memory/Mémoire/Memória, the official newsletter of LACCHA (Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives) Roundtable is now available! The newsletter provides information relating to archival collections from Latin America, the Caribbean and their Diaspora communities … Continue reading →

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Latino Media Celebrates 200 Years

Posted on December 9, 2008 by mkelehan

Check out this great audio interview with Juan Gonzales, Professor Felix Gutierrez, and Sandip Roy on the history of Latino journalism in the United States. Juan Gonzales points to El Misisipi as the first Latino newspaper, published in September 1808 … Continue reading →

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Codex Cospi is featured book for Binghamton University Libraries’ Special Collections for November/December

Posted on December 8, 2008 by jgreen

The Codex Cospi (or Codex Bologna) is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican pictorial manuscript, included in the Borgia Group. It is currently located in the library of the University of Bologna. Binghamton University owns the 1968 Graz facsimile of this work. To … Continue reading →

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CFP: Undergraduate Conference at Columbia

Posted on April 1, 2008 by mkelehan

The Columbia University Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race presents our Annual Conference: Race and Ethnicity in America and the World Undergraduate Student Conference Call for Papers/Abstracts The conference is open to undergraduate juniors and seniors in all … Continue reading →

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CFP: BU International Innovation Fund

Posted on March 18, 2008 by mkelehan

The newly established Lois B. DeFleur International Innovation Fund has launched its first round of competition for grants, in the amount of $2,000 to $5,000, to be awarded to any member of the University community (faculty, staff, or students) before … Continue reading →

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New Research by Professor Kelvin Santiago-Valles

Posted on January 31, 2008 by mkelehan

The most recent issue of Caribbean Studies features an article by Sociology & LACAS Professor Kelvin Santiago-Valles on Pedro Albizu-Campos’ use of the idea of race. Santiago-Valles, Kelvin. “Our Race Today [Is] the Only Hope for the World”: An African … Continue reading →

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Chicano Database

Posted on December 4, 2007 by mkelehan

Binghamton University has just subscribed to the Chicano Database, the premier database of Latino/a Studies. Despite its misleading title, the Chicano Database includes citations about all Latino populations in the U.S., including Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexican-Americans, Cuban Americans, and Central … Continue reading →

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Juan Gelman wins the Premio Cervantes

Posted on November 28, 2007 by mkelehan

Argentine poet, Juan Gelman has won the most prestigious literary prize of the Spanish-speaking world, the Premio Cervantes. The Libraries have many works by Gelman, both in Spanish and in English. For a sampling from infoLINK, the library catalog, see … Continue reading →

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