There are more people speaking Spanish at home in the US than ever before, and some estimates put the proportion of Americans with Hispanic heritage at over 25 per cent by 2060. The place of Latinx peoples, languages and cultures in the USA goes to the heart of current reckonings of race and nation in America, yet the complexity, diversity, and tensions within this vast swathe of US society are not always fully understood. New York’s Stateside Puerto Ricans, Florida’s Cubans, and the Mexicans of Texas and California have very different histories, cultures and politics from each other – and each Latinx community is itself a complex and sometimes contradictory social formation. Join our panel of experts for a discussion of this vital and fascinating part of the American story.
Speakers include Stephanie Lewthwaite, Associate Professor in American History at the University of Nottingham, and Josephine Metcalf, Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Hull.
https://events.bl.uk/events/america-now-viva-latinx-america
