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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama is hosting a national
conference that will bring together activists and scholars to look at
the lives of Latinas and Latinos in the southern United States.
“Latinas/os in the U.S. South: Power, Politics and Integration” will
be held Friday, Feb. 19, at the Hotel Capstone on the UA campus.
UA’s department of American studies and Latino Studies, a
Palgrave Macmillan journal based at John Jay College of the City
University of New York, are collaborating on the conference. Work
presented at the conference will publish in a special issue of the
journal focusing on the South. The conference issue will begin a series
of special issues of Latino Studies, on Latinos in U.S. regions,
leading up to the 10th anniversary of the publication in 2013.
The conference is slated to run from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Feb. 19.
Welcoming comments are scheduled for 8:30 am to be followed immediately
by the conference keynote speaker, Saket Soni. Soni is the lead
organizer of the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice.
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Contact: http://latinosouth.ua.edu.
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