Event Description:
La Habana 500
Panel Discussion:
La Habana and New York City, an Enduring Relationship
with Lisandro Pérez, Nancy Raquel Mirabal and Orlando J. Hernández; John Gutiérrez, panel moderator
3-5 PM
9th Floor Conference Room, NB
Reception: 5-6 PM
New Building
Lisandro Pérez, professor in the department of Latin American and Latinx Studies at John Jay College, CUNY, and author of the acclaimed Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York, will explore the long relationship between La Habana and New York City, one of the incubators of Cuban nationalism. (The book received a 2019 literary honorable mention for studies on Latina/os in the U.S. from Casa de las Américas in La Habana.)
Nancy Raquel Mirabal, director of the U.S. Latina/o Studies Program at the University of Maryland and author of Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957. The work has been characterized as “A remarkable book that rescues the rich history of Cubans of color in the United States from obscurity.”
Orlando J. Hernández, professor emeritus at Hostos Community College, CUNY, critic and translator. He has published articles on José Martí and Eugenio Maria de Hostos and their contributions to the 19th-century anti-colonial struggles in Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. His forthcoming book, Eugenio María Hostos: Adalid de la inclusividad, is about Hostos’s advocacy for equality and human rights.
John A. Gutiérrez, assistant professor in the Department of Latin American and Latinx Studies at John Jay College, CUNY, is a researcher exploring the intersection of medicine, modernity and politics in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and its diasporas in the United States. He is currently at work on a history of the anti-tuberculosis movement in Cuba and is conducting additional research on the Cuban medical community in fin-de-siècle New York City.
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