“Latinx” (pronounced “La-teen-ex”) is the gender-neutral term that covers one of the largest and fastest growing minorities in the United States. Accounting for 17 percent of the country, over 58 million Americans belong to this category, including a sizable part of the country’s working class, both foreign and native-born. Their political empowerment is altering the balance of forces in a growing number of states. And yet Latinx barely figure in America’s ongoing conversation about race and ethnicity. Remarkably, the US census does not even have a racial category for “Latino.”
Join journalist, poet, and author Ed Morales as he explores how Latinx political identities are tied to the long Latin American history of mestizaje—“mixedness” or “hybridity”. This border thinking is both a key to understanding bilingual, bicultural Latin cultures and politics, as well as a challenge to America’s infamously black/white racial regime.
This timely conversation on race— particularly the Latinx experience—is a crucial look at a powerful and yet often overlooked demographic that is shaping America.
Ed Morales is a journalist who has investigated New York City electoral politics, police brutality, street gangs, grassroots activists, and the Latino arts and music scene. He has been a Latin music Newsday columnist and longtime Village Voice contributing writer whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Miami Herald, San Francisco Examiner, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Jacobin, and The Nation. He was a contributing editor to NACLA Report on the Americas a frequent contributor of op ed columns for The Progressive Media Project.
Ed is the author of several books including: Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture, Living in Spanglish, and The Latin Beat: From Rumba to Rock. He is also a poet whose work has appeared in Aloud: Voices From the Nuyorican Poets Café and various small magazines, and whose fiction has appeared in Iguana Dreams and Boricuas.
He is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, and occasionally appears as a host on WBAI-FM.
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Join journalist, poet, and author Ed Morales as he explores how Latinx political identities are tied to the long Latin American history of mestizaje—“mixedness” or “hybridity”. This border thinking is both a key to understanding bilingual, bicultural Latin cultures and politics, as well as a challenge to America’s infamously black/white racial regime.
This timely conversation on race— particularly the Latinx experience—is a crucial look at a powerful and yet often overlooked demographic that is shaping America.
Ed Morales is a journalist who has investigated New York City electoral politics, police brutality, street gangs, grassroots activists, and the Latino arts and music scene. He has been a Latin music Newsday columnist and longtime Village Voice contributing writer whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Miami Herald, San Francisco Examiner, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Jacobin, and The Nation. He was a contributing editor to NACLA Report on the Americas a frequent contributor of op ed columns for The Progressive Media Project.
Ed is the author of several books including: Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture, Living in Spanglish, and The Latin Beat: From Rumba to Rock. He is also a poet whose work has appeared in Aloud: Voices From the Nuyorican Poets Café and various small magazines, and whose fiction has appeared in Iguana Dreams and Boricuas.
He is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, and occasionally appears as a host on WBAI-FM.
“Latinx” (pronounced “La-teen-ex”) is the gender-neutral term that covers one of the largest and fastest growing minorities in the United States. Accounting for 17 percent of the country, over 58 million Americans belong to this category, including a sizable part of the country’s working class, both foreign and native-born. Their political empowerment is altering the balance of forces in a growing number of states. And yet Latinx barely figure in America’s ongoing conversation about race and ethnicity. Remarkably, the US census does not even have a racial category for “Latino.”
Join journalist, poet, and author Ed Morales as he explores how Latinx political identities are tied to the long Latin American history of mestizaje—“mixedness” or “hybridity”. This border thinking is both a key to understanding bilingual, bicultural Latin cultures and politics, as well as a challenge to America’s infamously black/white racial regime.
This timely conversation on race— particularly the Latinx experience—is a crucial look at a powerful and yet often overlooked demographic that is shaping America.
Ed Morales is a journalist who has investigated New York City electoral politics, police brutality, street gangs, grassroots activists, and the Latino arts and music scene. He has been a Latin music Newsday columnist and longtime Village Voice contributing writer whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Miami Herald, San Francisco Examiner, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Jacobin, and The Nation. He was a contributing editor to NACLA Report on the Americas a frequent contributor of op ed columns for The Progressive Media Project.
Ed is the author of several books including: Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture, Living in Spanglish, and The Latin Beat: From Rumba to Rock. He is also a poet whose work has appeared in Aloud: Voices From the Nuyorican Poets Café and various small magazines, and whose fiction has appeared in Iguana Dreams and Boricuas.
He is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, and occasionally appears as a host on WBAI-FM.
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Join journalist, poet, and author Ed Morales as he explores how Latinx political identities are tied to the long Latin American history of mestizaje—“mixedness” or “hybridity”. This border thinking is both a key to understanding bilingual, bicultural Latin cultures and politics, as well as a challenge to America’s infamously black/white racial regime.
This timely conversation on race— particularly the Latinx experience—is a crucial look at a powerful and yet often overlooked demographic that is shaping America.
Ed Morales is a journalist who has investigated New York City electoral politics, police brutality, street gangs, grassroots activists, and the Latino arts and music scene. He has been a Latin music Newsday columnist and longtime Village Voice contributing writer whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Miami Herald, San Francisco Examiner, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Jacobin, and The Nation. He was a contributing editor to NACLA Report on the Americas a frequent contributor of op ed columns for The Progressive Media Project.
Ed is the author of several books including: Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture, Living in Spanglish, and The Latin Beat: From Rumba to Rock. He is also a poet whose work has appeared in Aloud: Voices From the Nuyorican Poets Café and various small magazines, and whose fiction has appeared in Iguana Dreams and Boricuas.
He is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, and occasionally appears as a host on WBAI-FM.
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