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(Un)Documented Narratives: Immigration, Trauma, and Art

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Tuesday, March 4, 2025

03:50 PM - 05:10 PM About Event

Dr. Curiel explores cultural productions that expose some of the deadliest immigration enforcement strategies in the U.S., Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Moreover, she reckons with the ethics of constructing migration narratives, the position of collective trauma in the study of immigration, and the possibilities of community healing through art and grassroots economies.

Book Launch & Conference: Latinas/os in New Jersey

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Friday, February 21, 2025

12:00 PM - 05:00 PM About Event

Join the editors, aldo A. Lauria Santiago and Ulla D. Berg, and the 20 contributors of the first book on Latinos in NJ!

This collection brings together innovative and empirically grounded scholarship from different disciplines and interdisciplinary fields of study and addresses topic including the demographic history of Latinos in the state, Latino migration from gateway cities to suburban towns, Latino urban enclaves, Latino economic and social mobility, Latino students and education, the New Jersey Dream Act and in-state tuition act organizing, Latinos and criminal justice reform, Latino electoral politics and leadership, and undocumented communities.

LCS Graduation Ceremony

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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

04:30 PM - 06:30 PM

Elizabeth Detention Center: Past, Present, and Future

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Friday, October 27, 2023

09:00 AM - 05:00 PM About Event

Join us for a timely and thought-provoking Symposium at Rutgers University in New Brunswick where we will delve into the past, present, and future of Elizabeth Detention Center. This symposium features both academic, policy, detainee, and activist perspectives on the challenges surrounding the struggle to end immigrant detention in New Jersey and the United States.

The symposium is coordinated by the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies in collaboration with American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), First Friends of NJ and NY, and Detention Watch Network, and with the support from the following Rutgers units: School of Arts and Sciences (SAS), Institute for the Study Global Racial Justice (ISGRJ), Global Latinx New Jersey, the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies (LCS), Rutgers Center for Immigration Law, Policy, and Justice, the Department of Sociology, Rutgers Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies (RAICCS), and the Program in Criminal Justice.

Latino and Caribbean Studies 50th Anniversary

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Friday, September 29, 2023

02:00 PM - 10:00 PM About Event

During the 2023-2024 academic year, the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies will be hosting events to celebrate 50 years of teaching, research, and service.

Join us and check back throughout the year for more events!

Recorded event: Dr. León as the Scarlet Speaker

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Scarlet Speakers from the Heart of New Brunswick:

COVID Impacts on Migrant Detention and Deportation

in New Jersey

Welcome to our graduation Celebration

2018 Graduation Celebration

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Tuesday, May 1, 2018

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On Tuesday, May 1, 2018, the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Henry Rutgers Term Chair in Latino Studies and Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies held it's annual reception to celebrate 2018 graduates who majored or minored in Latino and Caribbean Studies and Latin American Studies and those who successfully completed the Departmental Certificate in Multicultural Competence.

“On Becoming a Queer Latina Cultural Activist and Filmmaker”

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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

01:40 PM - 03:00 PM

Graduation 2022

GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM 2023

LatCar Announces Fall 2022 Courses!!

New Fall 2022 Seminar in Latino Cultural Studies: Art and Activism on the US/Mexico Border

Prof. Dinzey Flores Presents at Cumbre Afro in Puerto Rico

Peter Guarnaccia donates art for LatCar Walls

Immigration, Diversity and Student Journeys to Higher Education by Dr. Peter J. Guarnaccia

Spring Faculty Office Hours

New Article by Prof. Kenneth Sebastian Leon

Black History Month at the Paul Robeson Center

LatCar has a new Chair

Acting Undergrad Director can Answer Your Questions

Spring 2022 Courses!

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President Holloway names Prof. Michelle A. Stephens as Executive Director

The Racial Aesthetics of Real Estate, 11/30/2016

The Puerto Rican Student Movement at Rutgers

Altar and Danzas Mexicanas, Dia de los muertos

Zaire Dinzey-Flores named to the New York City Housing Authority Board by Mayor Bill de Blasio

April 18-21 Queer South by North

April 13-15 Latino and Ethnic Studies as a Critical Pedagogy

February 25 “Electric Santería” Talk by Aisha Beliso-De Jesús

November 30 Haiti and Dominican Republic Deportations Teach-in

November 19 Film Screening of "We Like It Like That: The Story of Latin Boogaloo"

November 12 Joterías y Mariconerías: Queer Latin@ Art and Activism

November 2 Dia de los Muertos Celebration

October 28 Presentation by Jessica Baker

October 6 Tomás Fernández Robaina Lecture

October 1 Welcome Back Reception

Film screening of "Maestra"

March 24 The Mimi Sheller Talk

March 12 Anthony Bogues talk

Feb 27, H. Adlai Murdoch Lecture

Feb 11, The Coromantee Wars: An Archipelago of Insurrection