Conversations in the Observatorio: Fernandez-Armesto and the Hispanic History of the United States

Felipe Fernández-Armesto, acuarela de Miguel Ángel Fernández

Felipe Fernández-­Armesto, a British historian of Spanish heritage at the University of Notre Dame, recasts the pilgrimage of Hispanics in the United States as a rich and moving chronicle for our very present. [His last book Our America] navigates five centuries of painful documents, atrocious statements and dubious literature to argue that the United States was, from its beginning, as much a Spanish colonial southern enterprise as an unending march westward. After long periods of migration, deportation and accommodation, the next United States could well be a pluricultural bilingual power, updating the American dream. “Our America” is perhaps the first history to make the case for this nation’s becoming a bright Latin American country (J. Ortega, New York Times).

A conversation with Harvard’s professors Tamar Herzog and Davíd Carrasco

Tapas will be served.

Sponsored by “Rafael del Pino” Foundation