Pedro Regalado: "Markets, Manhood, and the Making of Latino New York"
Between the end of the Spanish-American War of 1898 and the dawn of the twenty-first century, Latino New Yorkers grew from a few thousand to more than two million. And while most historical scholarship has focused on Latinos as laborers and community activists, their entrepreneurial engagement with capitalism from the earliest years of migration was a foundational force within the community and a formidable one beyond it. This talk asks: how did Latino entrepreneurs transform twentieth-century New York City, and what role did gender play in that transformation? In particular, it explores the rise of Latino storefronts (from bodegas to beauty salons) and business associations, showing how ideas about masculinity, family responsibility, and respectability underwrote claims to economic and political power.
Pedro Regalado is Assistant Professor of History.
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