On August 26th, 2015 Karma Chavez and guest host Amanda Zhang talk the evolution and history of the Young Lords of New York, their relationship to Puerto Rican nationalism, and the intersectionality with gender in the movement with Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, author of “The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation.”
Wanzer-Serrano is a Communications professor at the University of Iowa, with a focus on the relationships between race, political possibilities, and rhetoric in the United States. His work has appeared in Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication Theory, Environmental Communication, Communication, Culture, & Critique, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, and is the author of The Young Lords: A Reader (New York University Press, 2010).