Join the Race Inequality and Policy Initiative for a conversation with Dr. Gabriel R. Sanchez on Latinxs and the Covid-19 Pandemic. The Zoom webinar event will take place on October 27, 2020 at 5pm.

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The Race, Inequality, and Policy Initiative presents Mobilized by Injustice. A book presentation on the impact that the criminal justice system has on American Democracy by Dr. Hannah Walker. October 8, 2020, 5:00 pm via Zoom.

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There is an upcoming meeting meant to gather interest in forming an Association of Latino Professionals for America (ALPFA) chapter at Wake Forest. The meeting is Feb. 19, from 5:30-7pm in Farrell Hall, room 104. I have attached a flyer to this email. There will be a couple individuals from the Charlotte Professional Chapter who will discuss the benefits of joining the organization. It’s a discussion-only meeting. No commitments.

Ashley Jardina is assistant professor of political science at Duke University. Her newly published book, White Identity Politics (Cambridge University Press), explores the roots of white prejudice and white solidarity. Jardina’s phenomenal book has been featured in numerous media venues including National Public Radio, PBS, The Atlantic, Washington Monthly, Vox and Salon.

Wednesday, December 4 at 5pm in the ZSR Library Auditorium

Jardina’s presentation is co-sponsored by the Politics department and Latin American and Latino Studies.

Join us for a public lecture by Dr. Rebecca Janzen from the University of South Carolina titled “¿Mejorando la raza?: Selective Immigration of Religious Minorities in Mexico.”

Date/Time: Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, 4:30 pm
Location:  Library Auditorium (ZSR 404)

This talk will examine relations between the Mexican government and religious minority communities of Mennonites and Mormons, with particular attention to state policies granting legal, cultural, and economic accommodations. Dr. Janzen will show how these relationships have evolved over time as public perceptions of these communities have shifted in response to changing conditions in Mexico. The discussion will consider recent political events and reports of rising violence affecting the communities. It will also address Carlos Reygadas’s Luz Silenciosa (2007), an award-winning film that portrays a Mennonite family in Mexico.

Rebecca Janzen is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. She is a scholar of gender, disability and religious studies in Mexican literature and culture whose research focuses on excluded populations in Mexico. Her first book, The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015), explored images of disability and illness in 20th century texts. Her second book, Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture (SUNY, 2018), focuses on religious minorities. Her current projects include a book on film and religion in Mexico, tentatively titled Unholy Trinity: State, Church and Cinema in Mexico as well as work on the intersection of legal and literary discourse as it pertains to minority communities in Mexico.

Co-sponsors: Dept. of Spanish and Italian, School of Divinity, Latin American and Latino Studies, Dept. for the Study of Religions