'Minority': Latinos and the Making of Multiracial America after the 1960s

Lorrin Thomas, Associate Professor of History and co-director of Latin American and Latino Studies at Rutgers University-Camden, will speak on Thursday, 6 April, in Room 225 of the Friedl Building on East Campus. Her talk is titled, "'Minority': Latinos and the Making of Multiracial America after the 1960s." Prof. Thomas' first book, Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth Century New York City (The University of Chicago Press, 2010) received the Saloutos prize of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society of the Organization of American Historians and earned honorable mention from the Casa de las Américas prize. Professor Thomas's second book project is a study of Latinas and Latinos and the genesis of "minority" and multiracial politics in the 1970s.