This event will be held in-person only, offsite at Harold Washington Library Center, 400 South State Street, Chicago. It is free and open to all, with no advance registration required.
Felipe Hinojosa, author of Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio (and also co-editor of Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945) and Lilia Fernández, author of Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago explore the intertwined histories of Latino faith, politics, and community formation in postwar Chicago and beyond.
The third American Writers Festival is presented by the American Writers Museum and Chicago Public Library. The free literary festival will be held at multiple stages inside the Harold Washington Library Center and feature a variety of leading contemporary authors, poets, artists, and playwrights. The Festival consists of discussion panels and author signings with prominent writers across various genres, including children’s and young adult fiction, science fiction, history, biography, poetry, and satire, who will share insights into their craft. Participating writers will address their perspectives on many of today’s most timely and controversial topics including immigration, book censorship, racism, and equality through themes within their literature.
This program is part of Beyond Belief: Religion and Social Change in 1960s Chicago, a wide-ranging Newberry initiative running through 2029. It is generously supported by Lilly Endowment Inc., through its Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative.
Speakers
Lilia Fernández, is professor of history at University of Illinois Chicago, where her c urrent research continues to examine Latino history in the Chicago area, focusing on cross-ethnic interactions among Latinos, their labor politics, class dynamics, activism, and strategic articulations of a panethnic identity.
Felipe Hinojosa, John and Nancy Jackson Endowed Chair in Latin America and Professor of History at Baylor University, is currently working on a book on the Latinx civil rights movement and its role in shaping American democracy in the post-World War II era.
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This program is free and open to all, with no advance registration required.
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