Join the DC History Center and The People's Archive for a book talk about language, community, and identity formation for Latinx immigrants in Chocolate City.

In the 1980s, DC was a majority Black, racially and economically segregated city experiencing an influx of immigrants from destabilized Latin American countries. Washington, DC quickly became a refuge for Latinos, especially Salvadorans. As the city's proud Black culture collided, mixed, and mingled with diverse Latin American cultures, the nation's capital birthed a unique cultural identity.

Join the DC History Center and the People’s Archive at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library on Monday, June 16 to hear from Amelia Tseng, author of Empanadas, Pupusas, and Greens on the Side. Nancy Mirabal, an expert in Latinx, Afrodiasporic, gentrification, and spatial studies, joins Tseng for a conversation about race, identity, language, and culture in Washington, DC.

REGISTRATION

Registration is free, and walk-ins are welcome.

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Purchase a book at checkout ($31.75, including tax) to be picked up during the program.

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Cover photo by Nancy Shia.

PRESENTED BY:

The DC History Center and The People's Archive at the DC Public Library are teaming up to bring audiences high-profile history books with distinct DC stories.

SPEAKERS

Amelia Tseng is Assistant Professor in Spanish and Linguistics. Her research addresses how language shapes and is shaped by identity across immigrant generations in Latinx diasporic contexts, focusing on multilingualism, dialect variation, discourse, and the construction of ethnoracial and cultural identity.

Nancy Raquel Mirabal is on the Advisory Board for the Center for Global Migration Studies and an Affiliate faculty with the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity, and the Center for Latin American Studies. She has published widely in the fields of Afro-diasporic and Latinx Studies.

ACCESSIBILITY

Please note that walk-ins are welcome and that seating is first come, first served. ASL is provided at this program. If you require accommodations for a disability, please email the DC History Center at programs@dchistory.org with your request as possible. We are committed to making events accessible for all participants

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