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Joshua Lund, of the University of Pittsburgh, will lead a roundtable discussion on "Hybridity and Latin America: Discourse, History, and the Limits of Race."

For centuries, the idea of racial or cultural mixedness has long figured as the axiomatic ground of Latin American identity. But does its ideological pervasiveness occlude more ambiguity than it presumes to resolve? This interdisciplinary panel, composed of students from Spanish and Portuguese, history, and Latin American studies, will examine hybridity’s significance as a socio-cultural hermeneutic, the political implications of its many historical and theoretical assumptions and its future as a critical concept in 21st century Latin America.

The event is sponsored by the University of Arizona's department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Center for Latin American Studies.

For more information contact Bram Acosta, acostaa@email.arizona.edu.