Reminder: CSI Legal Studies Institute Book Talk Tomorrow, 2/24: Beltran, "Cruelty as Citizenship."

 The CSI Legal Studies Institute will host the first of three talks in its Spring 2021 Series of Book Talks, "New and Noteworthy," on Wednesday, February 24th.  This first event is co-sponsored by the Office of Student Life--Pluralism and Diversity, and the Office of the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences. LINK to register below.   Questions?  Contact Professor Michael Paris, Michael.Paris@csi.cuny.edu​

 

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Cristina Beltran, Ph.D., Political Science, Rutgers University, works at the intersection of Latino politics and political theory. She is an associate professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. From 2001 until 2011, she taught in the Political Science Department at Haverford College; in 2013-14, she was a resident member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. Her publications include The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity (Oxford University Press, 2010). Spanish Translation: El problema de la unidad: política latina y la creación de identidad, Fondo Editorial Casa de las Américas (La Habana: Cuba), 2012; and “To Wield and Exceed the Law: Mexicans, Migration, and the Dream of Herrenvolk Democracy.” In Trumpism and the Latino Predicament. Edited by Phillip (Felipe) Gonzales, Mary Louise Pratt and Renato Rosaldo (Forthcoming SAR Press, 2021). Professor Beltran will discuss her recently published book Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy (University of Minnesota Press, 2020)​