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Race and Immigration Conference

By immigrationprof

A conference on “Race and Immigration: Challenges and Opportunities for the New American Majority”  will be held on Saturday, December 9, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at El Museo del Barrio (1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street; Subway Line: 6 [103rd St.]). The conference will explore three primary themes: 1. Dynamics of minority race relations (particularly the tensions and potential for unity between African Americans and Latinos); 2. Ways in which immigration is changing the composition of Black and Latino populations and subsequently redefining what it means to be Blackand/or Latino in the U.S.; 3. The social and political implications of the demographic shift that is occurring as the majority of the American population becomes non- White. Participants include the following: U.S. Congressmen Gregory Meeks. Luis Gutierrez, and Charles Rangel; National Public Radio reporter Manadalit del Barco; PBS’s Maria Hinojosa; University of Chicago sociologist Saskia Sassen; University of North Carolina economist William Darity; and New York University Professors Juan Flores, Pedro Noguera, George Priestley, Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, and many more.  For details, click here.

KJ