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Nuestras Historias/Our Histories: Latinos In Richmond, Patricia Herrera, Laura Browder
Nuestras Historias/Our Histories: Latinos In Richmond, Patricia Herrera, Laura Browder
Theatre and Dance Faculty Publications
There are approximately 100,000 Latinos in the Richmond metropolitan area who represent a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. As Latinos immigrate to Richmond, they establish permanent ties to their new home and begin to transform its culture. Through interviews, objects and images, Nuestras Historias: Latinos in Richmond documents the region’s diverse Latino experience.
Hamilton, Democracy, And Theatre In America, Patricia Herrera
Hamilton, Democracy, And Theatre In America, Patricia Herrera
Theatre and Dance Faculty Publications
I, along with University of Richmond professors Lázaro Lima and Laura Browder, received an National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association Latino Americans grant this year to organize the Latinos in Richmond program, which coincided with two classes that we taught this spring: the Tocqueville Seminar “Performing Latino USA: Democracy, Demography, and Equality” and the First-Year Seminar “Telling Richmond’s Latino Stories: A Community Documentary Project.” Since the goal of both courses was to explore how Latinos—the nation’s largest “minority” group in a representative democracy like America—is also the most underrepresented, I was interested in understanding Hamilton through …