"Imagined
Latino Communities:The Challenge of the Coming
Century"
- ARTURO MADRID
Arturo Madrid, one of the
country's most distinguished Latino activists and scholars, will
deliver a lecture titled "Imagined Latino Communities: The Challenge
of the Coming Century," Tuesday, October 19, in the New York Room in
Mary Woolley Hall at 4 pm. The College's Latin American studies
program is sponsoring the talk. Mount Holyoke awarded Madrid an
honorary degree in 1997. Madrid, who is Norine R. and
T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at
Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, has played an important
part in the national articulation, critical examination, support, and
defense of Latino concerns in the United States. His lecture will
look at changes taking place in this community and its increasingly
strategic place and influence--both within this country and in Latin
America. During a time when few
Latinos were attending college, Madrid emerged as an important and
respected voice within the highest reaches of academe. He holds a
B.A. with honors from the University of New Mexico, where he was
elected to Phi Kappa Phi. A recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship,
he went on to pursue graduate studies in Hispanic languages and
literature at UCLA during the late 1960s. Since completing his
doctorate, Madrid has held academic and administrative positions at
several institutions, including the University of Minnesota, the
University of California, San Diego, and Dartmouth College. Beginning in 1975, Madrid's
leadership role in the Ford Foundation's Graduate Fellowship Program
for Mexican Americans, Native Americans, and Puerto Ricans directly
contributed to the creation of an entire generation of
college-educated Latinos and a new cohort of leadership within that
community. In 1980, Madrid served as director of the Fund for the
Improvement of Post-Secondary Education of the U.S. Department of
Education. In 1984, he founded what has become one of the nation's
leading policy studies think-tanks on Hispanic issues, the
Tomás Rivera Center, located in Claremont, California, and San
Antonio, Texas. In addition to his many articles, published lectures,
reviews, and essays, Madrid has served on the boards of some of the
country's most prominent organizations. His activities have been
widely recognized. In 1989, he appeared on Bill Moyers's nationally
televised PBS program "World of Ideas." In 1990, Hispanic Business
Journal named him one of the top 100 Hispanics in the country.
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