Event Lectures and Symposia America's Largest and Least Understood Minority: Marie Arana on "LatinoLand"
Date and Location
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When: Saturday, August 24, 2024
4:10 pm - 4:55 pm EDT
This event will be livestreamed on c-span.org External. It will be available for viewing afterwards in the Library's Event Videos collection.
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Where: Walter E. Washington Convention Center - East Salon ABC (Street Level, South Building)
801 Allen Y. Lew Place NW, Washington, DC 20001
- Stage: East Salon ABC Event Type(s): Author Presentations, For Adults Genres: Hispanic, History, Nonfiction
Part of National Book Festival ; 2024 National Book Festival
Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.
Journalist and writer Marie Arana has taken on a nearly impossible task in “LatinoLand”: write an overview of Latino America. Latino Americans make up nearly 20% of the American population but they are not a monolith or a single group. Join us as Arana talks about her work interviewing and depicting Latino Americans, in conversation with María Peña.