American culture expert kicks off speaker series on immigration
January 30, 2012
WHAT: Immigration speaker series at New Mexico State University
WHO: Anthony Mora, assistant professor of history at the University of Michigan
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31
WHERE: College of Health and Social Services auditorium
VISUALS: Speaker series discussion with a public audience
New Mexico State University is offering a speaker series about immigration titled, “Arriving in America: The Challenge of Immigrants and Minorities in Modern American History.”
The first speaker, Anthony Mora, an assistant professor in the history department at the University of Michigan, will give his talk “‘Americans Immigrate Constantly:’ Historic Ironies and Reversals that Made the Modern U.S.-Mexican Border” at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31, in the College of Health and Social Services auditorium.
Mora’s principal research interests focus on the historical construction of race, gender, and sexuality in the U.S.
His book “Border Dilemmas” explores the ways that racial and national ideologies influenced the meaning of Mexican identity along the nineteenth-century U.S./Mexico border.
The lectures are free and open to the public. A parking permit for off-campus visitors is available at https://corridor.nmsu.edu/auxadmin/ParkingForms/epermit.aspx A campus map indicating the location of the College of Health and Social Services, including nearby parking, is available at http://chss.nmsu.edu/prospective-students/visit-our-college/
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