Claudio Ivan Remeseira
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Claudio Iván Remeseira (remeseira@hotmail.com) is a New York-based award-winning journalist, writer and cultural critic. Director of the Hispanic New York Project, hosted by Columbia University’s American Studies Program, and editor of the upcoming Hispanic New York: A Sourcebook (Columbia University Press, 2010), an anthology of essays on the city’s Latino, Latin American and Iberian cultural heritage. Member of the Advisory Board of the Library & Archives of El Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños at Hunter College (City University of New York) and of the Latin American Cultural Week of New York. His critical and literary work has appeared in Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Salmagundi, Primera Revista Latinoamericana de Libros, Diario Rumbo, Hora Hispana (Daily News), El Nuevo Día (Puerto Rico), El País (Spain) and La Nación, Página/12 and Lilith magazine (Argentina), among other publications. He also publishes a blog on Latino and Latin American cultural and current events news, Hispanic New York Project [http://hispanicnewyorkproject.blogspot.com/]

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Walt Whitman and the Immigration Debate

Posted June 9, 2010 | 14:39:14 (EST)

May 31st was the 191st anniversary of Walt Whitman's birth in West Hills, an old travelers' hub located a few miles south of Huntington Village, Long Island. Whitman is regarded today as the quintessential American poet, but in his time he was also what today we would call a public...

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