Review of Dr. Michael Benitez Jr. virtual event：Latinidad at the crossroads of race, culture, and COVID-19
On 09/17/2020 1pm to 2pm, I attended a virtual event hosted by Speakout institute with guest speaker Dr. Michael Benitez Jr. The title of the event is called: Latinidad at the Crossroads of Race, Culture, and COVID-19. In today's virtual event, Dr. Benitez talked about the existing issues in latino culture, the meaning of being hispanic, history of latinidad , racism in our current American culture, Afro-latinidad in America, whiteness practice in our American culture. Dr. Michael Benitez Jr. lecture slides, 09/17/2020 I like how he introduce the hispanic culture and value to me. First he pointed out a few issues in latino culture. Latino was suffering from their own white supremacy. Also, being honest to each other is not necessary means being nice to other. Another issue is hispanic identity issue. Some people got offended by being identified as Latinas. Me...