"Left with the Hyphen: Self-Identity, Latino Journalism, and Ruben Salazar's Legacy"
A lecture by Ramona Martínez
Tuesday, 3 December, 2013
12:30 – 1:15pm
Aquia Building 346
Public Radio journalist Ramona Martínez will discuss her latest radio series on Hispanic/Latino Heritage in relation to her Latina cultural heritage and how journalist Ruben Salazar's legacy inspires her work. Ruben Salazar was a Chicano journalist who was killed in August 1970 while covering the Chicano Moratorium protests against the Vietnam War in Los Angeles.
Ramona Martínez is a Latina journalist whose work has been featured on PBS's Chicago Tonight and NPR's morning Edition. She Currently works on NPR's Newscast Unit.
Martínez comes as a guest speaker for the synthesis course SPAN 388, Introduction to Latino Studies, but the event is open to the public.
The event is organized by Prof. Ricardo F. Vivancos Pérez and the Department of Modern and Classical Languages.
November 21, 2013
