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6:00pm Dinner for in-person guests
6:30pm Livestreamed discussion begins; the livestream URL is
https://www.facebook.com/WorldCatholicism/videos/970633274523894/
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For this 2nd talk of the "Catolicismo, Cultura y Comida" series** organized by CWCIT and Tepeyac/Catholic Campus Ministry, we welcome Dr. Gina Pérez of Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH).
The idea and practice of sanctuary have a long and vexed presence in U.S. political discourse, community organizing, and social movements. In this talk (and her most recent book), Dr. Gina Pérez explores the ways activists, service providers, and faith leaders and religious communities drew on long histories of faith-based and secular organizing to mobilize and respond to the precarity of Latina/o communities in Ohio from 2016-2020. More recently, the attacks on immigrants in Ohio during the 2024 presidential election—including disinformation about Haitian immigrants and Haitian migrants—affirm the need to highlight efforts to create and disseminate narratives that challenge anti-immigrant rhetoric and to nurture sanctuary practices and people.
**Limited seating; dinner will be served.
:: ABOUT THE SPEAKER ::
Gina Pérez is a cultural anthropologist and professor and chair of the Department of Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH). She is the author of two award-winning books: The Near Northwest Side Story: Gender, Migration, and Puerto Rican Families and Citizen, Student, Soldier: Latina/o Youth, JROTC and the American Dream. Her new book, Sanctuary People: Faith-Based Organizing in Latina/o Communities, explores sanctuary movements and practices with and among Latinas/os in Ohio from 2016-2020.
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