Americas Society/Council of the Americas的动态

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Marie, your family arrived in the United States from Peru in the 1950s when Latinos were only about 2% of the population of the United States, and today the number is closer to 20%. Thank you so much for being here tonight. Ohh, Brian, it's such a pleasure. This is my third time in this building presenting a book. And I'm so grateful to the American Society Council of the Americas for what you do, the America's Quarterly. It's an extraordinary. Pillar in the understanding of Latin American sculpture, which is a dedicated by career now to trying to explain who we are, where we've come from and where we're going. We may not have a single narrative, but we are united by a number of commonalities, by being marginalized virtually unseen. Although we are a burgeoning, exuberant population here in Latino land, in this wildly diverse population, in our yearning for unity, in our sheer perseverance, lives a vibrant force, a veritable engine of the American future.