Lowell Lecture
Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity
Date & Time
April 7, 2021 at 7 p.m. - 8:31 p.m.
Location
Arsenal Center for the Arts
321 Arsenal Street Watertown, MA 02472
Driving Directions
Speaker(s)
Paola Ramos is a host and correspondent for VICE and VICE News, as well as a contributor to Telemundo News and MSNBC. Ramos was the deputy director of Hispanic media for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and a political appointee during the Barack Obama administration, and she also served in President Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. She’s a former fellow at Emerson Collective. Ramos received her MA in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn. Visit her website, paolaramos.com, to learn more, and follow her on Instagram and Twitter @paoramos.
Presenting Organization
Topics
Current Affairs History Humanities
Contact
Adult Programs (subspace@mos.org, )
This virtual offering will stream live from the Museum of Science for registrants to enjoy at home. Registrants will receive links to view this program via email within 24 hours of the event start time.
Join us for a special conversation with journalist and activist Paola Ramos, author of Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity. Ramos introduces readers to young Latinos across the United States who are redefining their identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many of them—Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer, and undocumented, living in large cities and small towns—are voices who have been chronically overlooked in how the diverse population of almost sixty million Latinos in the US has been represented. No longer.
In this cross-country travelogue, Ramos journeys to find the communities of people defining the controversial term, “Latinx.” She meets the indigenous Oaxacans who rebuilt the main street in a post-industrial town in upstate New York, the “Las Poderosas” who fight for reproductive rights in Texas, the musicians in Milwaukee whose beats reassure others of their belonging, as well as drag queens, environmental activists, farmworkers, and the migrants detained at our border. Drawing on intensive field research as well as her own personal story, Ramos chronicles how “Latinx” has given rise to a sense of collectivity and solidarity among Latinos unseen in this country for decades.
Finding Latinx calls on all of us to expand our understanding of what it means to be Latino and what it means to be American. The first step towards change, writes Ramos, is for us to recognize who we are.
In collaboration with MOS en Español.