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White Demographobia: Race, Statistics, and the Construction of ‘Latino Threat'

Monday, April 16, 2018
6:00 pm
Upham Hall 001

A part of Miami University’s 2018 Penny Lecture Series. 

Rodney Coates, professor of in the Department of Global and Intercultural Studies and director of Black World Studies, brings the speakers to campus for his class “Critical Inquiry and Penny Lecture Series,” The theme of this year’s series is Global Identities and Social Movements. Talks are free and open to the public.

Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz is a sociologist of knowledge and race, born and raised in Chicago. His areas of specialization include: the politics of ethnoracial knowledge, Latino/a identity formation, and contemporary Latino civil rights politics. Michael received his PhD from Brown University in 2015.​

Michael D. Rodgriguez
Michael D. Rodgriguez
Assistant Professor, Sociology and Latina/Latino Studies, Northwestern University