Hispanic New York

Black History Month: The Legacy of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (Spotlight Latino)

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:29:00 +0000

If you grew up in New York City it is very likely that you have heard of the Schomburg Center for the Research in Black Culture. What many may not be aware of is that Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, famously known as “the father of Black history,” was Puerto Rican ... read more

Read also: Black Latinas & Latinos in HNY and Afro-Latinos

America Ferrera, Latina Activist - By Nina Terrero (NBC Latino)

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:25:00 +0000

You may know her from her four-year run on the hit sitcom Ugly Betty, but actress America Ferrera has taken off the braces and is ready to change the conversation when it comes to women’s health and politics in 2012 ... read more

Opinion: Latinos Won't Forget Romney's 'Anti-immigrant' Talk - By Ruben Navarrette Jr. (CNN)

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:02:00 +0000

The dishonest and cynical way in which the former governor of Massachusetts has dealt with the immigration issue on the campaign trail shows that he has a problem being consistent ... read more

Romney Wins Florida Latino Vote; Immigration Not A Major Issue (Fox News Latino / The Telegraph / Washington Times / VOXXI / Univision News)

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Despite having taken a hard stance on immigration and losing out on the endorsement of key Latino groups, Mitt Romney won the majority of the state's Hispanic vote and pulled out a handy win during Tuesday’s GOP primary ... read more here, here, here, and here

Read also:

Analysis: Deconstructing Romney’s Florida Latino sweep (Univision News Tumblr)

Univision-ABC-Latino Decisions Poll Accurately Predicted Florida Latino Vote

Florida Primary Election Map (The Miami Herald)

Winning Among Florida Hispanics Could Translate Nationally for Romney (HuffPost Latino Voices)

Romney Wins Big in Florida Primaries (The New York Times)

Art: Maria Berrio and Frances Gallardo at Praxis

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:45:00 +0000

EE.UU le teme a la cultura hispanoablante - Por Winston Manrique Sabogal (El País)

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:29:00 +0000

Los escritores Francisco Goldman, Edmundo Paz Soldán, Daniel Alarcón y Morris Berman afirman que a pesar de su innegable expansión, la lengua española no ha alcanzado aún un reconocimiento pleno ... leer más y ver video aquí

Life is Precious (TM) Program

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:25:00 +0000

Frida Kahlo and Colegas - By Isaac Hernández (VOXXI)

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:14:00 +0000

In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States, which opened last Sunday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, corrects a historical misunderstanding ... read more

Obama Team Predicts Landslide Victory Among Latinos - By Jordan Fabian (Univision News)

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:07:00 +0000

As Republican presidential candidates battle for the Latino vote in Florida, President Obama's campaign released a memo predicting that he would win the Hispanic support by something verging on a record margin ... read more

Obama Custom Tailors Pitch to Latinos - By Josh Gerstein (Politico)

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:06:00 +0000

As Obama’s GOP rivals face the primaries’ first sizable group of Latino voters in Florida, the president’s use of executive power to court this pivotal group is already well under way ... read more

Latino Vote in Florida: Ten Facts (VOXXI)

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:05:00 +0000

There are 1,473,920 Hispanic registered voters in Florida (some 13 percent of the state's 11.2 million total registered voters), and around one tenth of all Republican Florida voters are Hispanic too ... read more

The Florida Republican Primary and the Latino Vote: News Roundup (NiLP Network)

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

In Florida, a changing Latino mosaic reshapes politics - By Kevin Gray (Reuters)

The Republicans' Hispanic problem - By Jonny Dymond (BBC News)

Why the 2012 Hispanic Vote Doesn't Matter ... Yet - By Ray Suarez (PBS NewsHour)

GOP Candidates Act Aggressively To Capture Cuban-American Vote Ahead Of Florida Primary - By Carlos Harrison (Huffington Post)

Gingrich Latino Puzzle - By Victoria DeFrancesco Soto (LatinoDecisions)

Will Mitt Romney's Embrace of Puerto Rican Statehood Play in Florida? By Bryan Llenas (Fox News Latino)

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Music: The Late Resurgence Of Cumbia (NPR)

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:59:00 +0000

Mixing the music of indigenous peoples, African slaves and Spanish colonizers, cumbia first rose to prominence in the 1960s on the coasts of Colombia ... read more and take a listen here

Migration, Race, and Ethnicity: Lecture Series

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:57:00 +0000

Camila Vallejo: Just Don’t Call Her Che - By William Moss Wilson (The New York Times)

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:10:00 +0000

Last month the British newspaper The Guardian asked readers to vote for its person of the year. They picked up a striking, nose-ringed student from Chile ... read more

Raúl Castro Calls to Fight Cuba's Greatest Enemy - Corruption (Fox News Latino)

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:08:00 +0000

On Sunday, president Raúl Castro delivered a full-throated defense of Cuba's one-party political system and a sharp warning of a greater threat to the revolution than anything the U. S. could plot ... read more

Florida Primaries: Jeb Bush Stays Silent, and to Many, That Says a Lot - By Jeff Zeleny (The New York Times)

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:04:00 +0000

A steady stream of endorsements has been flowing to Mitt Romney, yet on the eve of the Florida primary, he has been unable to land the biggest catch of all ... read more

Mitt Romney Makes Pitch To Cuban Americans in Spanish - By Elise Foley (HuffPost Latino Voices)

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:02:00 +0000

Mitt Romney hit on his audience's priorities on Sunday in Hialeah, Fla., where he spoke to a largely Cuban American crowd ... read more

Latinos are No Saving Grace for Gingrich - By Jordan Fabian (Univision News Tumblr)

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:58:00 +0000

Newt Gingrich expected to win Tuesday’s Florida Republican primary with the help of the state’s Latino population. That will hardly happen ... read more

Read also: Villaraigosa Says GOP Alienates Latino voters

Q&A with Spanish Author Elvira Lindo - By Crystal Honores (VOXXI)

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:10:00 +0000

"New York has influenced my writing," says the author of Lugares que no quiero compartir con nadie (Editorial Planeta, 2012); "now my style it’s more crystalline, more direct ..." read more

Una New York hispana - Por Hernán Vera Alvarez (El Nuevo Herald)

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:08:00 +0000

Hispanic New York: A Sourcebook (Columbia University Press) acerca al lector la historia del desarrollo de esa comunidad (diversa, compleja, por momentos inabarcable) y da las claves para interpretarla ... leer más

Read more here: http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2012/01/29/1111665/una-new-york-hispana.html#storylink=cpy

BUY IT HERE: 2011 INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARD (Best Reference Book in English)

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:07:00 +0000

HISPANIC NEW YORK

A Sourcebook

- Edited by CLAUDIO IVÁN REMESEIRA -

With a foreword by ANDREW DELBANCO

A Must-Read on the Latino, Latin American, & Iberian Cultural Heritage of New York

“ A rich anthology of the history, ethnicity, language and culture of a city with the largest and most diverse Hispanic population in the country. ” -- SAM ROBERTS (The New York Times)

“... a biography of New York, a portrait of the city – past, present, and future – as it’s been constituted by Spaniards and Latin Americans ...” JONATHAN BLITZER (Word Without Borders)

“The publication of Hispanic New York: A Sourcebook marks a significant milestone in Nueva York studies as an interdisciplinary, multinational field with hemispheric and transatlantic scope.” CATHARINE E. WALL (World Literature Today)

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“This fine sourcebook takes us on a lively, thoughtful tour of a city that many writers, artists, and cultural historians have long known but have found hard to define. With a breadth of vision that reminds us America is two continents, Remeseira has gathered a prime selection of writers and thinkers to present a kaleidoscopic, complex whole. Hispanic New York emerges as a hybrid space, a juncture where Hispanics, Latinos, Latin Americans, or any other nation-specific name they choose to call themselves may understand their past and transform it into new cultural forms.” SUSANA TORRUELA LEVAL, Director Emerita, El Museo del Barrio

"In these times in which some sectors of the country choose to forget the contributions we Latinos make to this country that has taken us in and to the world, a new book does its part in helping us all remember...An amusing literary and cultural tour of this city that has, for such a long time now, defined the immagrant spirit of the United States, and without forgetting that America refers to two continents and not just to a single country...A book to be shared, to be kept and to build awareness." ANJANETTE DELGADO, Emmy-Award Winner, author of The Heartbreak Pill

“Sometimes a new anthology can be more than a convenient assemblage of previously scattered documents. I think of The Puritans (1938), edited by Perry Miller and Thomas H. Johnson, which permanently changed the way we understand the legacy of early New England to American culture; or Understanding Poetry (published in the same year), edited by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, which influenced—even controlled—how poetry was read and taught for decades. Claudio Iván Remeseira’s Hispanic New York is such a book.” ANDREW DELBANCO, author of The Real American Dream

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Hispanic New York - A 576-page volume containing classic selections from José Martí, Bernardo Vega, and Walt Whitman to contemporary authors such as Jack Agüeros, Virginia Sánchez Korrol, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Ed Morales, Milagros Ricourt, Frank M.Figueroa, Clara E. Rodríguez, Luis Pérez-Oramas and Ana Celia Zentella, among others

- A collection of authoritative texts cutting across Latino/a, Latin American, and American Studies; English, Spanish and comparative literature; U.S., Latin American and Caribbean history; studies on race and ethnicity; and an array of disciplines spanning the humanities and social sciences, from anthropology, urban studies and political science to socio-linguistics, ethnomusicology and art history

- A compelling case for New York as a paradigm of the Latinization of the United States

- An updated bibliography of primary and secondary sources, from the history of the different Latino communities, to the vast English- and Spanish-language literature by people of Hispanic descent who wrote in or about New York

- The ultimate reference book for college and high school students, teachers, scholars, librarians, journalists, and the general public

Hispanic New York -- A must-read for anyone interested in the contributions made by Latinas and Latinos to the U.S. national identity and to the interconnections between the English- and Spanish-speaking worlds.

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HISPANIC NEW YORK edited by Claudio Iván Remeseira (576 pages) paper copies ISBN 978-0-231-14819-1 regular price $29.95. Cloth copies ISBN 978-0-231-14818-4 regular price $89.50, $71.60 after discount. Regular shipping and handling costs apply. "A compelling case for New York as a paradigm of the Latinization of the United States, Hispanic New York is the ultimate reference book on the city’s Latino, Latin American and Iberian cultural heritage. A must read" (Columbia University Press, 2010)

Cristina Beltrán's Book on Latino Identity and Politics Gets Casa de las Américas Nod

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:06:00 +0000

While growing up in Southern California during the 1970s, Cristina Beltrán saw her father assume the presidency of his local union and her mother attend UCLA part time and become involved in feminist and Latino causes ... read more

See also:

Premios Casa de las Américas: Lista completa (En Español)

The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity (Oxford U. Press, 2010)

Notas en un diario - Por Ricardo Piglia (El País)

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:05:00 +0000

Escribir a mano es una práctica arcaica, anterior incluso al lenguaje oral. Los instrumentos han cambiado a lo largo de los siglos pero el gesto es el mismo ... leer más

Sergio Chejfec’s 'My Two Worlds' - By Margaret B. Carson (Conversational Reading)

noreply@blogger.com (Hispanic New York Project) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:02:00 +0000

My Two Worlds raises comparisons to authors like Sebald and Walser, and its brief 100 pages are made expansive by intricate, precise prose ... read more