How Does It Feel? Race, Representation, and Diversity on the Right
Channel: Havens Wright Center for Social Justice
Date: 25/09/2022

A lecture by Cristina Beltrán examining how enhanced opportunities for an increasingly diverse elite alongside widespread and deepening inequality has important implications for how we understand the dynamics of identity, representation, and racial politics.

This event was co-sponsored by Global Studies and Chican@/Latin@ Studies at UW-Madison.

Cristina Beltrán is associate professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Currently, she is a Member in the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. A political theorist by training, she is the author of The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity (Oxford University Press, 2010). The Trouble with Unity won several awards, including the 2011 Ralph Bunche Award from of the American Political Science Association and Cuba’s Casa de la Américas prize for the best book on the subject of Latinos in the United States. Her work has appeared in Political Theory, Aztlán, Politics & Gender, Political Research Quarterly, the Du Bois Review, Contemporary Political Theory, and various edited volumes. Her current book project uses affect and aesthetic theory to analyze the politics of the Right, particularly the growing presence of Latino conservative organizations and leaders.