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Date: | Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:45:30 -0500 |
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How important is language in ethnic and/or racial identity formation?
Do you have to speak Spanish to identify as Latin@?
What about racial groups that do not have their own unifying language like African Americans?
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Come join La Alianza and MEChA for our dinner discussion:
***Exploring Race & Identity***
Prof. Christina Gomez
A discussion around multiculturalism, changing understandings of identity, and the role that language plays in the formations of these identities.
When? Wednesday, Feb 15th
Time? 6:30pm
Where? LALACS House (38 N. Main)
**Food will be provided! (Open to Campus)
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Professor Christina Gomez comes to us from Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, where she is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Latino & Latin American Studies. As a Dartmouth Visiting Professor, she teaches the SOCY/LALACS course during summer term: "Race and Ethnicity in the US".
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