Dr. David Abalos Lecture

Theater
(followed by Book signing - Book Store)

Outline of Dr. Abalos’s Presentation

Dr. Abalos will speak on “The Politics of Immigration from the Perspective of a Politics of Transformation.” In his presentation he will ask the question: "Whose America?" and give the historical background that shaped our attitudes towards immigrants beginning with 1790 and the preferred populations since that time.

He will trace the main turning points in immigration history until the present and look specifically at the Sensenbrenner Bill, passed in December of 2005 and aimed at reversing the flow of undocumented immigrants into the U.S., and the marches sparked by this Bill in the Spring of 2006. He will also examine the most recent proposals being recommended by Senators Edward Kennedy and John McCain.

In the context of the presentation, Dr. Abalos will point out the strategy of business and the government to ensure a large pool of workers for agriculture, the railroads, construction and the service/domestic sectors. Then he will offer some insights as to why people risk so much to come especially from Latin America, and what their life is like once they arrive here. Finally, he will add his own views of how to respond to the undocumented workers who arrive daily in New Jersey as well as throughout the country. The event will conclude with a dialogue between Dr. Abalos and the faculty and students present.

In McKay Library on UCC's Cranford Campus

La Comunidad Latina in the United States
Personal and Political Strategies for Transforming Culture

David T. Abalos
La comunidad Latina, the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, has long been told that assimilation is the only way to succeed in American society. This book challenges that generally accepted view and concludes instead that transformation as a way of life is the only viable option for the Latino community as a whole, regardless of racial, class, regional, or religious differences. It highlights how in the everyday life of la comunidad Latina the members of the community can recognize the underlying ways of life, the stories, and the patterns of relationships that cripple them, and how to break with these ways of life, stories, and relationships to create fundamentally more loving and compassionate alternatives.

Along with all men and women, Latinos and Latinas face four choices: retaining a blind loyalty to a romanticized past, assimilating, violating each other, or transforming their ethnic and racial group for the better. This examination of the underlying sacred meaning of the stories of the Latino culture attempts to determine whether these stories are destructive or creative. Now coming of age, la comunidad Latina, previously wounded by assimilation, continues to tell its story in art, literature, history, and religion so that the world may, perhaps for the first time, see its personal, political, historical, and sacred faces. The most important story now being lived is that of Latina women and Latino men who are making choices that will determine the ultimate meaning of a new Latino culture in this nation.
List Price: $26.95 0-275-95893-0 Pages: 216 Publication: 5/30/1998

Author Information:

DAVID T. ABALOS

David T. Abalos is Professor of Religious Studies and Sociology at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. He received his B.A. from the University of Toronto, an M.A. from Marquette University and his Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. He has lectured and written extensively on multicultural and gender scholarship and on Latinas and Latinos in the United States from the perspective of a politics of transformation. His articles have appeared in Cross Currents, The Journal of Men’s Studies, The Journal of Religion, Disability and Health, The Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, Endeavors, The Journal of Dharma, The Nursing Forum, Democracy, The Latino Studies Journal, The Journal of Multicultural Education of New Jersey, The Community College Humanities Review and Liberal Education. He published a monograph at Yale University, Chicanos in the United States: Redeeming the Past, Transforming the Future, he wrote a monograph, Teaching and Practicing Multicultural and Gender Fair Education from the Perspective of Transformational Politics, for the North Texas Community and Junior Colleges Consortium and he initiated a new monograph series for the Program in Ethnic Studies, University of San Diego, Confronting Issues of Race and Ethnicity in a Changing America From the Perspective of a Politics of Transformation. He has also published the following books: Latinos in the United States: The Sacred and the Political, University of Notre Dame Press, 1986, The Latino Family and the Politics of Transformation, Praeger Press (selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book, 1994), Strategies of Transformation Toward a Multicultural Society: Fulfilling the Story of Democracy, Praeger Press, 1996; La Comunidad Latina in the United States: Personal and Political Strategies for Transforming Culture, Praeger Press, 1998 and The Latino Male: A Radical Redefinition, Lynne Reinner Press, 2002. The University of Notre Dame Press is publishing a revised, enlarged Second Edition of Latinos in the United States The Sacred and the Political that will be available in early 2007. In 1988 and again in 2002 he was given an award for Excellence in Scholarship Dedicated to Latinas and Latinos in the United States by the New Jersey Hispanic Association of Higher Education. During the Academic Year 1988‑1989, Professor Abalos served as a Faculty Fellow for the State of New Jersey to develop multicultural scholarship. In recognition of his work in the classroom, Professor Abalos was chosen by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education as New Jersey Professor of the Year for 1987‑88 and was also the recipient of a National Gold Medalist award for being one of the top ten outstanding university professors in the nation. He has served as a Visiting Professor at Princeton University and at Yale University where he taught courses on Latinas and Latinos in the United States. During the academic year 1993-1994, Prof. Abalos was a Visiting Professor in the Politics Department at Princeton University and also served as the Chicano/Latino Visiting Scholar at Illinois State University and as a Lilly Foundation Visiting Scholar at St. Norbert College, Green Bay, Wisconsin. He has served as an academic advisor working with k-12 faculty in New Jersey and throughout the country in order to assist in transforming the curriculum from a multicultural and gender fair perspective. At commencement ceremonies for the year 2000, Prof. Abalos was awarded Seton Hall University=s highest honor, the Bishop Bernard J. McQuaid medal for distinguished service in recognition of his excellence in teaching and scholarship. During the Spring semesters, 2001 and 2002, Prof. Abalos served as a Visiting Professor in the Politics Department, Princeton University and during the academic year 2002-2003 he served as a Visiting Fellow in the Politics Department. In the Spring semester of 2006 Prof. Abalos once again served as a Visiting Professor in the Politics Department and is returning for the Spring of 2007 to the Politics Department at Princeton.

DAVID T. ABALOS is Professor of Religious Studies and Sociology at Seton Hall University.

Title: La Comunidad Latina in the United States
Author: Abalos, David T.
Publisher: Westport, CT : Praeger, 1998.
Subject: Hispanic Americans
Browse Bookshelf: 305.8
Location & Call Number: CRANFORD STACKS 305.86803Ab16
Title: The Latino family and the politics of transformation
Author: Abalos, David T.
Publisher: Westport, CT : Praeger, 1993.
Subject: Hispanic American families.
Browse Bookshelf: 306.8
Location & Call Number: CRANFORD STACKS 306.85Ab16

Title: Strategies of transformation toward a multicultural society
Author: Abalos, David T.
Publisher: Westport, CT : Praeger, 1996.
Subject: Multicultural education
Browse Bookshelf: 370.1
Location & Call Number CRANFORD STACKS 370.19Ab16

La Comunidad Latina in the United States: Personal and Political Strategies for Transforming Culture
by David T. Abalos - 1998 - 216 pages

La comunidad Latina, the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, has long been told that assimilation is the only way to succeed in American society. This book challenges that generally accepted view and concludes instead that transformation as a way of life is the only viable option for the Latino community as a whole, regardless of racial, class, regional, or religious differences. It highlights how in the everyday life of la comunidad Latina the members of the community can recognize the underlying ways of life, the stories, and the patterns of relationships that cripple them, and how to break with these ways of life, stories, and relationships to create fundamentally more loving and compassionate alternatives.

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The Latino Male: : a Radical Redefinition
by David T. Abalos - 2002 - 221 pages
Introduction Latino men need to break out, to open new doors and close some, to ask new questions and provide more loving and compassionate responses to ...

What does it mean to be a Latino male in the US today? The author shows how the old roles - womanizer, macho, patriarch - are becoming unlivable, and demonstrates a new way of living by redefining machismo as the pride in self that allows Latino men to choose roles for themselves.
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Strategies of Transformation Toward a Muticultural Society: Fulfilling the Story of Democracy
by David T Abalos - 1996

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LA Comunidad Latina in the United States Book
La comunidad Latina, the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, has long been told that assimilation is the only way to succeed in American society. This book challenges that generally accepted view and concludes instead that transformation as a way of life is the only viable option for the Latino community as a whole, regardless of racial, class, regional, or religious differences. It highlights how in the everyday life of la comunidad Latina the members of the community can recognize the underlying ways of life, the stories, and the patterns of relationships that cripple them, and how to break with these ways of life, stories, and relationships to create fundamentally more loving and compassionate alternatives

Strategies of Transformation Toward a Multicultural Society Book
How can the culturally diverse communities of America live justly and fruitfully together? Not by assimilation into the dominant culture -- nor by fighting for the freedom to pursue our own self-interest at the cost of our repressing both the wounds and the promising potential of our own cultural roots. This book offers a theory and practice of transformation that shows, especially through literature, education, and politics, how we can create a multicultural society that liberates our being as a fulfillment of the story of democracy. Perhaps for the first time in American history we are seeing the personal, political, historical, and sacred faces of women, people of color, and all ethnic groups as they tell their stories. It is this emerging scholarship that constitutes the new multicultural and feminine face of the story of democracy.

Strategies of Transformation Toward a Muticultural Society Book
How can the culturally diverse communities of America live justly and fruitfully together? Not by assimilation into the dominant culture -- nor by fighting for the freedom to pursue our own self-interest at the cost of our repressing both the wounds and the promising potential of our own cultural roots. This book offers a theory and practice of transformation that shows, especially through literature, education, and politics, how we can create a multicultural society that liberates our being as a fulfillment of the story of democracy. Perhaps for the first time in American history we are seeing the personal, political, historical, and sacred faces of women, people of color, and all ethnic groups as they tell their stories. It is this emerging scholarship that constitutes the new multicultural and feminine face of the story of democracy.

The Latino Family and the Politics of Transformation Book
Abalos presents a guide to understanding the Latino family in the United States and describes the personal, political, historical, and sacred choices available in creating a freer and more fruitful family life. By linking theory to practice, the book provides a reeenvisioning of the Latino family.

The Latino Male Book

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David T. Abalos Books from
	LA Comunidad Latina in the United States Book La comunidad Latina, the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, has long been told that assimilation is the only way to succeed in American society. This book challenges that generally accepted view and concludes instead that transformation as a way of life is the only viable option for the Latino community as a whole, regardless of racial, class, regional, or religious differences. It highlights how in the everyday life of la comunidad Latina the members of the community can recognize the underlying ways of life, the stories, and the patterns of relationships that cripple them, and how to break with these ways of life, stories, and relationships to create fundamentally more loving and compassionate alternatives
	Strategies of Transformation Toward a Multicultural Society Book How can the culturally diverse communities of America live justly and fruitfully together? Not by assimilation into the dominant culture -- nor by fighting for the freedom to pursue our own self-interest at the cost of our repressing both the wounds and the promising potential of our own cultural roots. This book offers a theory and practice of transformation that shows, especially through literature, education, and politics, how we can create a multicultural society that liberates our being as a fulfillment of the story of democracy. Perhaps for the first time in American history we are seeing the personal, political, historical, and sacred faces of women, people of color, and all ethnic groups as they tell their stories. It is this emerging scholarship that constitutes the new multicultural and feminine face of the story of democracy.
	Strategies of Transformation Toward a Muticultural Society Book How can the culturally diverse communities of America live justly and fruitfully together? Not by assimilation into the dominant culture -- nor by fighting for the freedom to pursue our own self-interest at the cost of our repressing both the wounds and the promising potential of our own cultural roots. This book offers a theory and practice of transformation that shows, especially through literature, education, and politics, how we can create a multicultural society that liberates our being as a fulfillment of the story of democracy. Perhaps for the first time in American history we are seeing the personal, political, historical, and sacred faces of women, people of color, and all ethnic groups as they tell their stories. It is this emerging scholarship that constitutes the new multicultural and feminine face of the story of democracy.
	The Latino Family and the Politics of Transformation Book Abalos presents a guide to understanding the Latino family in the United States and describes the personal, political, historical, and sacred choices available in creating a freer and more fruitful family life. By linking theory to practice, the book provides a reeenvisioning of the Latino family.
	The Latino Male Book

OVERCOMING HATRED Creating Community

Thursday Morning, March 1, 2007 in Cranford

Dr. David Abalos Lecture

Theater (followed by Book signing - Book Store)

David T. Abalos Books from

Theater
(followed by Book signing - Book Store)