 The Multicultural Resource Center (MRC) is pleased to co-sponsor and provide support for Latino/a Heritage Month each year. Latino/a Heritage Month is a month-long series of speakers, screenings, performances, and gatherings organized by the community of Latino/a students, in collaboration with the MRC as well as other faculty and staff at Oberlin College, around topics related to the diverse Latino/a heritage. The goals of Latino/a Heritage Month are:
▪ To celebrate Latinidad as a quintessentially diverse, transnational, and changing phenomenon in the Americas and the rest of the world.
▪ For faculty, staff, and students, both Latino/a and non-Latino/a, to teach and learn about the past, present, and future of Latinidad.
▪ To highlight the achievements and creativity of Oberlin’s Latino/a communities by showcasing cutting edge Latino/a scholarship, cultural production, and performance.
▪ To foment informed, engaged reflection and dialogue on what might constitute Latinidad in different historical and geographical contexts; on the social, cultural, and political importance of Latino/a communities in the U.S. and elsewhere; and on the relationships among different diasporic Latino/a communities, and their relationships with Latin America.
▪ To reach out to broader Latino/a community in Northeast Ohio.
▪ To celebrate the various relationships Latinos/as build with other communities throughout the United States and the ways in which together they create meaningful new communities, cultural knowledge and expressions.
▪ To build coalitions with other marginalized communities in a struggle for social justice.
Latino/Latina Heritage Month 2007 ARTE Y RESISTENCIA/ART AND RESISTANCE
RAQUEL Z. RIVERA
Public Lecture: “Beyond Gatas and Divas: Latinas in Hip-Hop and Reggaeton”
September 20, 2007 at 4:30 p.m. in West Lecture Hall
YASMIN HERNANDEZ
Public Lecture: “Archivos Subversivos/Subversive Archives
October 4, 2007 at 4:30 p.m. in West Lecture Hall
DIA DE LA RAZA BANQUET
October 13, 2007 at 6:30 p.m. in the Environmental Studies Center Atrium
LATIN NIGHT AT THE ‘SCO
October 13, 2007 at 10 p.m. in Wilder Hall – ‘Sco
AYA DE LEON
Public Performance by Aya De Leon – writer, performer, hip hop theater artist, and poetic activist.
November 3, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. in The Cat in the Cream
Latino/Latina Heritage Month (LHM) Committee
Eric Estes, Associate Dean and Director of Multicultural Resource Center
Sebastiaan Faber, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies
David Kapp, LHM committee representative for La Alianza Latina
Marisol LeBrón, MRC Latino/a Community Coordinator
Elissa Nieves, LHM committee representative for La Alianza Latina
Meredith Raimondo, Assistant Professor of Comparative American Studies
Lauren Salazar, Co-chair of La Alianza Latina
 LHM 2007-2008 pamphlet
Latino Film Series 2006-2007
LHM 2006-2007 poster
LHM 2005-2006 poster
LHM 2005-2006 pamphlet
LHM 2004-2005 poster
LHM 2004-2005 pamphlet
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