Immigration Law

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: ERIC CAMAYD-FREIXAS - LANGUAGE PROFESSOR

By Greg Siskind

If you haven't read the great article in today's New York Times about Professor Eric Camayd-Freixas' bravely coming forward with his account of the Postville meat processing plant raid (see my post below), make sure you check it out. There's also a video of the professor's interview with the Times posted with the article. And you can read the essay that is the subject of the article here.

Professor Camayd-Freixas teaches at Florida International University in my hometown of Miami. According to his biography at FIU's Latin American and Carribean Center web site:

Erik Camayd-Freixas was born in Cuba, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University,
and is currently Associate Professor of Latin American literature at FIU. He is the author
of the books Realismo mágico y primitivismo and Primitivism and Identity in Latin
America, as well as a frequent contributor to literary journals of the Americas and
Europe. Dr. Camayd has lectured around the world on topics in literary and cultural
studies, ethnic narrative and poetics, historiography of Latin America and the Caribbean,
and linguistic analysis of discourse.

Well done Professor Camayd-Freixas.

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on July 11, 2008 (boomark / email).