**TO BE RESCHEDULED** The Evolving Identity of the Latino

Alfredo Mirandé

Monday, 25 Mar 2019 at 6:00 pm – Hach Hall Atrium

This event is being rescheduled due to a flight cancelation. New date to be announced soon!

Alfredo Mirandé is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside, and a scholar of Chicano sociology, masculinity, the relationship among law, race, class, and gender. His talk is being hosted by Lazos, a group of Hispanic/Latino men in leadership positions at Iowa State who are actively engaging Latinx students and mentoring them in their college experience and beyond. Alfredo Mirandé, who was born in Mexico City and raised in Chicago, earned graduate degrees in sociology from the University of Nebraska and a JD from Stanford University. He was a National Research Council Fellow in ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley; a Rockefeller Fellow in sociology at Stanford University; and is the author of nine books, including Hombres y Machos: Masculinity and Latino Culture.

Cosponsored By:
  • College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
  • College of Design
  • College of Engineering
  • College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Ivy College of Business
  • Office of the Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion
  • U.S. Latino/a Studies Program
  • Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)

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