I'm on a panel about 'Multicultural Millenials' and...

...and I figured I would try to get your help.

The nice folks at the NY Latino International Film Festival have been kind enough to invite me to speak on a panel next week. The topic is 'Multicultural Millenials' or as they've put it in the description:

Bilingual, digitally fluent, “Multicultural Millennials”, particularly bilingual Latinos, have emerged as the nation’s most powerful population segment, strongly influencing mainstream culture, lifestyle and media consumption. Here we discuss how this population shift has created great opportunity for content producers, distributors and advertisers, and how these groups can effectively dialogue to create and promote compelling programming for the new, multiethnic face of America.

It's at 3 PM on July 30 at HBO (1100 Ave of the Americas b/w 42/43rd Sts – 15th floor) but I'm not writing this post to shamelessly plug.

I'm posting to elicit some ideas.  Sure, I'm going to follow Guy's advice. And yes, I have some opinions on the subject already: the fluidity of identity, multicultural or not; lack of importance of authority; they don't twitter or pay for music; Univision isn't producing content for them, which is why they're going to UGC; blah blah blah...

OK, I have some more homework to do to prepare. But as part of that homework, as the panel is a week away, I thought I would see if anyone else has found resources or info online that are particularly enlightening about these so-called multicultural millenials.

I'm very open to stealing your ideas...I'll give credit, of course...

Comments

[Corina]

Hey Lee:

this is Corina I have been working with bicultural identity issues and I always find it useful to site numbers of how this segment of the population is growing and how that translates into how fast is changing the american society. There is a book called "children of immigration" by Suarez Orozco (harvard educational pyschologist and anthropologist) check the first 2 chapters and get those numbers and concepts, I think it could be a good punch to open your presentation.

Can I go to see you at HBO? how can I get in?

Corina Hoffman
corinah@optonline.net

[Eliza Esquivel]

If you weave in the Obama mutt comment and I'll buy you a cerveza ;)

Richard Rodriguez on Obama on multi-racial identities

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/social_issues/july-dec08/racessay_12-11.html

[Lee]

corina, thanks. i'll take a look. it's not a presentation, i'm part of a panel w/ a few other people, but admission is free. just show up! i'd love to see you...

eliza, as for your comment, i'll have you know i've used far more derogatory terms to describe people like us w/ hyphenate identities, so i'm sure i can work in 'mutt'