Latino Americans: 500 Years of History: Latino Americans: Special Screening - Episode 4: New Latinos, with Lisandro Pérez

                                              Episode 4: New Latinos with Lisandro Pérez

Come and join in the conversation of this landmark documentary featuring interviews with nearly 100 Latinos and more than 500 years of History. 

*Lisandro Pérez, a scholar from the City University of New York, will lead the discussion. 

At this event, you will get an exclusive look at artifacts from our special Latin American collection housed at the iconic Stephen A. Schwarzman Building!

Light refreshments will be provided.

* Lisandro Pérez received his Ph.D in Sociology and Latin American Studies from the University of Florida. Until the summer of 2010 Dr. Pérez served for twenty-five years on the faculty of Florida International University (FIU) in Miami where he founded and directed its Cuban Research Institute after two terms as Chair of its Sociology and Anthropology Department.  During the 2004-2005 academic year, Dr. Pérez was a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library, where he carried out research for a book on the Cuban community in New York City during the nineteenth century; an essay based on that research project appeared in the edited book New York 400 published in 2009 by the Museum of the City of New York. He served as consultant for the 2010 exhibit Nueva York sponsored by the New York Historical Society and exhibited at the Museo del Barrio and wrote a chapter for the exhibit’s companion book, published by Rizzoli Publishers. In addition to the Cullman Center, Dr. Pérez has received fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

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