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Book Presentation - Cuban Privilege - Susan Eckstein

February 2, 2023
6:00 AM - 7:30 PM
America/New_York
International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118 St., New York, NY 10027 802

Join Susan Eckstein for a presentation of her book Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America.

SUSAN ECKSTEIN is a professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies and in the Sociology Department at Boston University. She has written numerous books and articles on Mexican urban poor, political-economic developments in Cuba, Cuban immigrants, immigration policy, and impacts of Latin American revolutions, and has edited books on Latin American social movements and social rights, and on immigrant impacts in their homelands. Most recently she published Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America. Previously she published How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands (co-editor), The Immigrant Divide: How Cuban Americans Changed the U.S. and Their Homeland, What Justice? Whose Justice? Fighting for Fairness in Latin America (co-editor), Struggles for Social Rights in Latin America (co-editor), Back from the Future: Cuba under Castro, Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements (editor), The Poverty of Revolution: The State and Urban Poor in Mexico and The Impact of Revolution: A Comparative Analysis of Mexico and Bolivia. She is the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the American Council on Learned Societies, the Ford Foundation, John D. and Catherine MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Tinker Foundation, and Christopher Reynolds Foundation. She has received a number of awards for her publications.

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