DePaul University’s Center for Latino Research will host a March 11 screening of a popular documentary that examines the disparate impact of breast cancer on women of color.  A discussion of the issue will follow.

“Territories of the Breast” will be shown at 6 p.m. at DePaul’s Monsignor Andrew J. McGowan Environmental Science and Chemistry Building (McGowan South), 1110 W. Belden Ave., Room 108, Chicago.  Artist Sonia Báez-Hernández, co-director of the film, will be on hand for the 7 p.m. discussion for a post-screening discussion. The free program is open the public.

“Breast cancer has a devastatingly disproportionate impact on Latina and African-American women,” said Lourdes Torres, interim director of the center.

The film, which was made in 2006 and has been featured in a number of film festivals around the world, explores various underlying issues that intersect to cause significantly higher mortality rates for Latina and African-American women battling breast cancer.  (A trailer for the film can be viewed on YouTube at http://bit.ly/bMyt3Y.) Báez-Hernández, a nine-year survivor of breast cancer, drew on her own experience for the film. Chicago-based illustrator and educator Diana Solís, another survivor featured in the film, also will attend the screening and discussion.

“This film shed an early light on a topic that is now well-documented and is finally being discussed in the media and public policy circles,” said Torres. “This screening and discussion will provide a rare opportunity to hear the voices of women of color discuss, honestly and openly, this issue and the inequities of our health care system.”

For additional information, contact María Isabel Ochoa at mochoa@depaul.edu or (773) 325-7317 or Cristina Rodriguez at crodrig6@depaul.edu or (773) 325-4808.