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Professor Benjamin Francis-Fallon’s latest book, “The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History,” discusses how Latina/o leaders in the U.S. first came to see themselves as belonging to one political community.
Join Professor Francis-Fallon at The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3, as he discusses his book, which has won The Huntington’s inaugural Shapiro Book Prize for “outstanding first scholarly monograph in American political, social, intellectual, or cultural history.”
“The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History” reveals how the rise of the Latino vote has redrawn the political map and what it portends for the future of American politics.
The impact of the Latino vote is a constant subject of debate among pundits and scholars. Will it sway elections? And how will the political parties respond to the growing number of voters who identify as Latino? A more basic and revealing question, though, is how the Latino vote was forged – how U.S. voters with roots in Latin America came to be understood as a bloc with shared interests.
In this new history, Benjamin Francis-Fallon shows how this diverse group of voters devised a common political identity and how the rise of the Latino voter has transformed the electoral landscape.
Benjamin Francis-Fallon is an Associate Professor of History at the College of Arts and Sciences at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC. He teaches courses on United States political, immigration, and Latino history.
This free Shapiro Book Prize Lecture will be held online via Zoom at 4 p.m. and will be recorded.
To register for the free webinar, visit www.huntington.org/events/
