Latino Colorado: The Struggle for Equality in the Centennial State with Ernesto Sagás

The Frank Waters Foundation Presents:

Latino Colorado: The Struggle for Equality in the Centennial State with Ernesto Sagás


Latino Colorado: Mexican Americans and other Latinos make up more than 22 percent of Colorado’s population, play a vital role in its major economic sectors, and are becoming a political force to be reckoned with. Yet most official histories of the state mention them only in passing. Ernesto Sagás’s new book, Latino Colorado: The Struggle for Equality in the Centennial State, fills this gap in the literature by examining the multifaceted experience of Latinos in Colorado from the nineteenth century to the present, from the old Hispano families of southern Colorado to the new arrivals, and from metro Denver to the state’s rural areas of the Western Slope and Eastern Plains. In his Frank Waters Foundation Southwestern Lecture, Ernesto Sagás will discuss passages from Latino Colorado, followed by a Q & A led by Thomas Acker, Emeritus Spanish language Professor at Colorado Mesa University.

Ernesto Sagás is professor of ethnic studies at Colorado State University and a political analyst for Univisión Colorado. In 2022 he was a Fulbright US scholar in La Paz, Bolivia. He is the author and coeditor of several books and articles on race and politics in the Dominican Republic, democracy and authoritarianism in Latin America, and U.S. immigration policies, among other topics.

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