"Making Sense of Latino Conservatives: Individual Agency and Stories of the Self" a lecture by Cristina Beltrán, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University.
3:30pm, Babbidge Library, Class of 1947 Room
A political theorist by training, her research focuses on modern and contemporary political theory, democratic theory, Latino and U.S. ethnic/racial politics, feminist and queer theory. She is the author of The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity (Oxford University Press, 2010), which was the recipient of numerous awards. In 2013-2014 she was a Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton where she conducted research for a book on Latino conservatives tentatively titled The Right Kind of Difference: Latino Republicans and the Pleasures of Race.
Sponsored by: El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies; Asia and Asian American Studies Institute; Sociology Department; UConn Political Theory Workshop
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