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Capital Campaign Proposals

  • An Endowed Chair in Latino and Caribbean Economic Development
    • The Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies seeks to develop an endowed professorship that will attract a specialist in community-based economic development who will commit to linking her or his research not only to New Jersey's (and the immediate region) Latino Communities but to developing path breaking channels of communication with more traditional humanities and social science based literatures and scholars. The endowed chair will not only focus on the perennial problem of poverty, but will also seek to research the production of wealth and community well-being more broadly. (Read more here.)
  • A Guest-Lecture Based Course: "Race and Ethnicity in the U.S. in Historical and Comparative Perspective"
    • The Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies proposes to create a recurring course offering that will be coordinated and facilitated by our department and the departments of History, Africana, American Studies and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. This 200-level course will introduce students to the historical and social science literature on the formation of race and ethnicity in the US, with a distinct emphasis on the creation of whiteness and its implication for those defined as non-white. (Read more here.)
  • The New Jersey Institute on Latino Communities, Immigration, and Policy
    • The multifaceted Latino Communities Institute will allow Rutgers University to provide the structure to better link Latino communities in the state and larger region to educational, service, business and government institutions and resources. A multi-focal approach will allow the Institute to quickly build a critical mass of resources, recommendations, networks and programs and become the state's principal site of expertise and knowledge about Latino and Caribbean communities. (Read more here.)
  • Faculty Learning Cluster Proposal: "Migration Across the Americas"
    • This proposed two-year Faculty Cluster titled “Migration Across the Americas” brings together faculty and graduate students from various Rutgers departments and schools, who work on different aspect of migration in the Americas. Our main goal is to develop interconnections between faculty and grad students who work on migration within different departments and schools across the Rutgers community and foster an interdisciplinary “permanent forum” on Latin American and Caribbean migration that can enhance our comparative knowledge of migration literatures and debates while also developing concrete implications for our research and teaching. (Read more here.)
  • The New Jersey Latino Community History and Culture Project: Researching the State's Latino Communities
    • The goal of this program is to collect documentary, oral history and ethnographic materials on New Jersey's diverse Latino Communities. New Jersey has been home to significant communities of Latin American and Caribbean descent since the early 1900s but very little is known about these communities, including the very large settlement of Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans and Mexicans during the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s. This work will begin to close the huge gap that exists in public and scholarly knowledge about these communities, their histories, cultures and experiences.(Read more here.)