Laitno American-"Peril and Promise"

Monday, April 25, 2016 - 12:00am
Sinclair Auditorium
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES FILM SCREENINGS
 
Episode Six  - “Peril and Promise”
Monday, April 25 | 6 pm | Sinclair Auditorium
This episode beings in the 1980s with the sudden arrival of hundreds of thousands of Central Americans fleeing death squads and mass murders at home. By the early 1990s, a political debate over illegal immigration has begun. But change is on the way—the coalescence of a new phenomenon called Latino American culture, as Latinos spread geographically and make their mark in music, sports, politics, business, and education. Is a new world being created? 
 
Discussion following each film screening by a faculty member of the Latin American Studies Program.
 
Co-sponsored by Lower Macungie Library
Latino Americans: 500 Years of History, created by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association, is part of an NEH initiative, The Common Good: The Humanities in the Public Square.
 
Latino Americans: 500 Years of History builds on the PBS documentary film series produced by WETA Washington, D.C.; Bosch and Co., Inc.; and Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB); in association with Independent Television Service (ITVS). 
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