And its about time. Im not going to take too much time too much time away from the panel, but i do want to do a special shout out to our moderator, nick, who is the andrew w. Mellon foundation postdoctoral fellow in Womens History and public history here at New York historical. Nick is a fantastic scholar and human being and colleague, and i am so absolutely thrilled that he is in with us at a very important moment in the development of the center. I also want to do a special shout out to the Mellon Foundation itself which about four years ago gave us a giant vote of confidence and a very lovely grant to get the center up and running. So because of the Mellon Foundation, were here, and were here to stay. And really, really happy about that. In any case, nick went to columbia university. Got his ph. D. There just a couple of years ago, as did i, more than a couple of years ago. But starting in september of 2019, hell be an assistant professor of labor and public history at the universit
Im not going to take too much time too much time away from the panel, but i do want to do a special shout out to our moderator, nick, who is the andrew w. Mellon foundation postdoctoral fellow in Womens History and public history here at New York historical. Nick is a fantastic scholar and human being and colleague, and i am so absolutely thrilled that he is in with us at a very important moment in the development of the center. I also want to do a special shout out to the Mellon Foundation itself which about four years ago gave us a giant vote of confidence and a very lovely grant to get the center up and running. So because of the Mellon Foundation, were here, and were here to stay. And really, really happy about that. In any case, nick went to columbia university. Got his ph. D. There just a couple of years ago, as did i, more than a couple of years ago. But starting in september of 2019, hell be an assistant professor of labor and public history at the university of massachusetts i
I am valley paley. I am the director of the center for Womens History, and i am so delighted to welcome you to the New York historical society and to the center this evening. If you do not know about us, its time you did. We are the first such center within the walls of a major museum in the United States. And its about time. Im not going to take too much time too much time away from the panel, but i do want to do a special shout out to our moderator, nick, who is the andrew w. Mellon foundation postdoctoral fellow in Womens History and public history here at New York historical. Nick is a fantastic scholar and human being and colleague, and i am so absolutely thrilled that he is in with us at a very important moment in the development of the center. I also want to do a special shout out to the Mellon Foundation itself which about four years ago gave us a giant vote of confidence and a very lovely grant to get the center up and running. So because of the Mellon Foundation, were here, a
named after them. but what about us latinos? we ve been here in this city, and we ve got every kind of latino. you want your puerto ricans? wepa. you want your cubans? dale! dominicans? que lo que tigre. colombianos? todo bien, todo bien. mexicanos? no manches, guey. and this is where i grew up, too. and when i was a kid, i don t know what the streets were paved with, but it damn sure as hell was not gold. but that didn t stop latinx new yorkers from making big contributions. basquiat, rita moreno puerto rican. cardi b dominican. supreme court justice sotomayor, nuyorican from the bx. even the very first non-indigenous person to live and work in the island of manhattan in the 1600s was juan rodriguez, a dominicano. mira eso, right from the start, we ve been here making this city great. now, i don t know what new york would be without latinos, but it sure as hell wouldn t smell as good, it wouldn t taste as good, and it definitely wouldn t sound as good. that s right, cause
- you know how they used to say the streets of new york were paved with gold? and then wave after wave of immigrants came here to make their lives better for themselves. the irish, the italians, the jews, the chinese they all got whole neighborhoods named after them. but what about us latinos? we ve been here in this city, and we ve got every kind of latino. you want your puerto ricans? wepa. you want your cubans? dale! dominicans? que lo que tigre. colombianos? todo bien, todo bien. mexicanos? no manches, guey. and this is where i grew up, too. and when i was a kid, i don t know what the streets were paved with, but it damn sure as hell was not gold. but that didn t stop latinx new yorkers from making big contributions. basquiat, rita moreno puerto rican. cardi b dominican. supreme court justice sotomayor, nuyorican from the bx. even the very first non-indigenous person to live and work in the island of manhattan in the 1600s was juan rodriguez, a dominicano. mira eso, rig