Screening: Latino Americans – 500 Years of History (Episode 2: "Empire of Dreams")

The CSRC presents a screening of “Empire of Dreams,” the second episode of the PBS series Latino Americans. This episode examines widespread immigration to the United States from Latin American countries and deportations between 1880 and 1942. After the screening, Marissa K. López, associate professor of English and Chicana/o studies, will lead a discussion on topics raised in the episode. A reception will follow the discussion.

Marissa K. López is Associate Professor of English and Chicana/o Studies at UCLA. Her areas of expertise include Chicana/o literature from the 19^th century to the present with an emphasis on 19^th century Mexican California. Her first book, Chicano Nations (NYU 2011), is about nationalism and Chicano literature from the early-1800s to post-9/11. She is currently at work on Racial Immanence, a monograph about uses of the body and affect in Chicano cultural production, an article from which, “Border Bodies,” is forthcoming in Contemporary Literature.

Latino Americans: 500 Years of History, a public programming initiative produced by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Library Association (ALA), is part of an NEH initiative, The Common Good: Humanities in the Public Square.