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

 



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 **October 20, 2014** 

 05:00PM - 07:00PM EDT 

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 **Observatorio. 2 Arrow St. 4th fl. Cambridge, MA. 02138**  



 

 



 

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Felipe Fernández-Armesto, acuarela de Miguel Ángel FernándezFelipe 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

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