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 April 25, 2012
| Time: | Noon-1 p.m. |
| Description: | Victor Armony, the 2012 Canada-U.S. Fulbright visiting chair in Policy Studies, presents "What Is Your Color or Race?" - a talk on ways in which several countries in Latin America seek to identify the ethnic "Other" through a very particular institutional process: the construction of census categories.
To what extent does naming the "Other" in official discourse become a controversial political and legal issue? The basic challenges faced by public institutions in recognizing and accommodating the identities of minority (or subaltern majority) groups are now common to most countries in the Americas. Cultural and ethnic diversity has become an important aspect of policymaking and public debate over complex issues such as immigration and naturalization reform, the application of antidiscrimination norms, affirmative action, curriculum guidelines for education, language use and bilingualism, religious freedom and secularism. All require facing the question of "Who are we and who are they?" |
| Location: | Sid Richardson Hall (SRH), Hackett Room 1.313, LLILAS |
| Contact: | David L Leal | 512-471-1343 |
| Sponsor: | LLILAS |
| Admission: | Free and open to the public |
| Categories: | Arts & Humanities, Brown Bag Lunch, Everyone, Lecture/talk |
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