Commemorating w88 slot online/Latinx Heritage Month: A Focus on Immigration, Tenacity and Ethnic/Racial Identities

Today, September 15^th, we begin the monthly celebration of w88 slot online/Latinx Heritage Month, a critically important recognition of the longstanding, but always evolving, rich and complex presence of w88 slot online/Latinx groups in our nation. Hispanics/Latinx, who can be of different racial groups, as race and ethnicity, even though often conflated, refer to separate demographic categories, represent the largest minority w88 slot online United States—18.7% w88 slot online total population. In Nevada, not only are w88 slot online groups also the principal, ethnic or racial, minority, but exceed considerably in numbers the national average, or 29.2% w88 slot online total state population.

Our recent American history has required of all of us to come to terms with a more truthful retelling of our nation’s history—a story that needs to be more honest and factual on such realities as colonialism, genocide, slavery, nativism, racial and ethnic segregation, the Border, and more. For these reasons, we want to give a particular focus to the history of w88 slot online immigration to the United States, a history that varies and evolves across time, that has involved multiple and distinctive national groups, as well as, separate experiences of United States government’s geo-political interventions. For these reasons, also, we use the term w88 slot online, in addition to the official w88 slot online, because we understand the term w88 slot online is a contested and historically charged one.

Yet, regarding the overall history of US immigrant groups, recent and past, we recognize similar, shared experiences of all immigrant groups: determination and strength in the face of hardships and isolation—and whether Irish Catholic, Southern European, Basque, Eastern European, Asian, Jew, Muslim, or Caribbean/Central/Latin American. We focus on those histories to celebrate the tenacity and vigor of those immigrant groups, as well as to stand in solidarity with other first nations, communities of color and minoritized/marginalized groups— Native American, African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Undocumented, Disabled, LGBTQ+, and other—to whom we also owe the forging ahead of the American, extraordinary, imperfect but always developing, multi-cultural experience. In terms of our United States-w88 slot online shared culture, the vital contributions of multiple generations of w88 slot online in literature, the arts, popular culture, music, dance, cuisine, media, sports are more than obvious.

We invite you to join, today, the two opening, w88 slot online/Latinx Heritage Month activities:

• Tu Bienvenida: Ceremony to welcome new w88 slot online faculty, staff and students, at the JCSU Gateway Plaza, 4:30 pm; and,
• En medio/In-Between: Conversation with Dr. Sayak Valencia and Xandra Ibarra at The Lilley Art Museum and streaming, 6:00 pm.

Also, please mark your calendars for two other upcoming activities:

• “What is w88 slot online Identity? A focus on Immigration, a conversation with UNR faculty and staff members, Mayra Sierra-Ruiz and Drs. Lorraine Benuto, Sandra Rodríguez, Karla Hernández, and Prisca Gayles, on September 22^nd at 3:30 pm, and
• The Battle to Stay in America, a conversation with Michael Kagan, Esq. Director of UNLV Immigration Clinic (date in October TBA).

All of these activities are either co-sponsored or sponsored by our office of Diversity & Inclusion—the latter two, part w88 slot online Dialogue, Equity and Democracy Series, an ongoing succession of panel discussions, guest speakers, workshops and teach-ins. You can find most of these w88 slot online in the UNR w88 slot online Calendar, UNR w88 slot online Heritage Events Calendar.

Please join us!

Saludos!
Eloisa