Who We Are

The Second Annual is presented by the Queens College  Latin American and Latino Studies Program in partnership with the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, Tertulia Resolana High School~College~Community Collaborative, the CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, the Afro Latin@ Forum, and the CUNY Chancellor’s Latino Faculty Initiative.

Latin American and Latino Studies Program, Queens College                                                                                                                                 qc.cuny.edu/Academics/Degrees/DSS/LatinoStudies/Pages/default.aspx

The Latin American and Latino Studies Program offers a major and a minor concentration in Latin American Area Studies and Latino Studies. The program gives students the opportunity to study a full range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding Latin America and the Caribbean, and the movements and settlement of the peoples and cultures of these regions in the United States. It is a program that combines Latin American studies, Puerto Rican, and Latino ethnic studies.

CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies                                                                                                                                                              lehman.cuny.edu/cuny-mexican-studies-institute/index.php

The CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies, based at Lehman College, is the culmination of nearly a decade of work by faculty, administrators, staff, and students to boost enrollment of Mexican and Mexican-American students, foster research with and about Mexico and Mexican in the United States, and collaborate with community-based organizations to support and empower the Mexican immigrant community.  With a special focus on Mexicans in the diaspora, especially with Mexicans in New York, the Institute offers a space for the Mexican community to consider its own and an institutional innovation for support of scholarly and community advocacy projects.  Fundamental to the Institute’s foundation and success will be its ability to further new projects with community and cultural organizations, to channel projects already underway and to build on existing efforts within and outside of CUNY.

CUNY Chancellor’s Latino Faculty Initiative                                                                                                                                                                   cuny.edu/academics/initiatives/lfi.html

Established in Fall 2006, the CUNY Latino Faculty Initiative seeks to link qualified Latino(a) candidates to faculty positions within CUNY. To this end, the Project will engage in outreach and recruitment, and work with CUNY colleges to advance their faculty’s diversity.

CUNY Dominican Studies Institute                                                                                                                                                                   ccny.cuny.edu/dsi/ 

Founded in 1992 and housed at The City College of New York, the Dominican Studies Institute of the City University of New York (CUNY DSI) is the nation’s first university-based research institute devoted to the study of people of Dominican descent in the United States and other parts of the world. CUNY DSI’s mission is to produce and disseminate research and scholarship about Dominicans, and about the Dominican Republic. CUNY DSI is the locus for a community of scholars, including doctoral fellows, in the field of Dominican Studies and sponsors multidisciplinary research projects.

Tertulia Resolana High School~College~Community Collaborative                                                                                                                            tertulia.commons.gc.cuny.edu

Tertulia Resolana High School~College~Community~Collaborative is an interdisciplinary, standards-based introductory course on Latin American and Latino Studies for high school students and is facilitated by pairs of advanced CUNY two-year and four-year college enrolled students. The Tertulia Resolana began in Phoenix, Arizona, serving five high schools and linking Arizona State and Maricopa Community College students from 2002-2006.   In 2012, the Tertulia Resolana began outreach with the support of the CUNY Institute for Mexican Studies, building partnerships with schools and institutions, and piloting the program with the Academy of Urban Planning in Brooklyn, New York.

The Center for Puerto Rican Studies                                                                                                                                                centropr.hunter.cuny.edu

Founded in 1973, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO), Hunter College, City University of New York is the largest university-based research institute in the United States solely devoted to the study and interpretation of the Puerto Rican experience in the Unites States.  Centro produces and disseminates relevant interdisciplinary research and collects, preserves and provides access to archival and library resources that documents Puerto Rican history and culture.

Afro Latin@ Forum                                                                                                                                                                                                                afrolatinoforum.org/

The Afro Latin@ Forum raises awareness of Latin@s of African descent in the United States. We advance the visibility of Black Latin@s through dialogue and action and promote an understanding of the afrolatin@ experience. The emphasis is guided by a transnational perspective that recognizes the centrality of race in today’s global reality and the struggle for social justice.

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