Category: Latino Studies

  • Discovering my blackness Blavity 2015-10-27 Juan Robles Brooklyn, New York “Oh, you’re Latino. I thought you were black.” For most of my life, I’ve had people pose some variant of that statement to me. In our society, the prevalent idea is that a person can either be Latino or black but not both. As a…

  • Activist, journalist and scholar Rosa Clemente sat down with Jared Ball for this extended 3-part interview about her life, work and politics.

  • Colored Perceptions: Racially Distinctive Names and Assessments of Skin Color American Behavioral Scientist Published online before print 2015-10-28 DOI: 10.1177/0002764215613395 Denia Garcia Department of Sociology Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Maria Abascal Department of Sociology Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Scholars are increasingly employing skin color measures to investigate racial stratification beyond the dimensions of…

  • An Insidious Way to Underrepresent Minorities The American Prospect 2015-11-05 Gary D. Bass, Executive Director Bauman Foundation, Washington, D.C. Adrien Schless-Meier, Program Associate Bauman Foundation, Washington, D.C. Cuts in U.S. Census funding threaten to produce an undercount of minorities and the poor and to reduce their share of federal aid. African Americans, Hispanics, and other…

  • In 2009, when Raquel Cepeda almost lost her estranged father to heart disease, she was terrified she’d never know the truth about her ancestry. Every time she looked in the mirror, Cepeda saw a mystery—a tapestry of races and ethnicities that came together in an ambiguous mix.

  • Mixed, Passing For White Youth Radio 2015-10-12 Maya Cueva What’s it like to be a mixed race person who passes as white? Complicated, according to Youth Radio’s Maya Cueva. She often finds herself struggling to represent the part of her racial identity that people can’t see. My whole life, I’ve always been the girl who’s…

  • La melaza que llora: How to Keep the Term Afro-Latino from Losing Its Power Latino Rebels 2015-10-16 Jason Nichols, Lecturer in African American Studies University of Maryland Me quiere hacer pensar/ que soy parte de una trilogía racial/ donde todo el mundo es igual/ sin trato especial/ se perdonar/ eres tú que no sabe disculpar/…

  • Goucher Social Justice Committee Presents: Rosa Clemente Goucher College Kelly Lecture Hall 1021 Dulaney Valley Road Baltimore, Maryland Thursday, 2015-10-29, 18:00 EDT (Local Time) Rosa Clemente is a Black Puerto Rican grassroots organizer, hip-hop activist, journalist, and entrepreneur. She was the vice presidential running mate of 2008 Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney in the…

  • Designing Afro-Latino Curriculum for Self-Determination Zambombazo 2015-10-23 Zachary & Betsy Jones Introduction During the 2015 Afrolatino Festival of New York in a panel discussion on the contextualization of blackness, William Garcia briefly mentioned working to implement Afro-Latino curriculum in schools, which greatly intrigued us. Thus, we reached out to him to learn more. His amazingly…

  • “Asian Latinos” and the U.S. Census AAPI Nexus: Policy, Practice and Community Volume 10, Number 2 (2012) pages 119-138 DOI: 10.17953/appc.10.2.m04004632k7n353l Robert Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Kevin Escudero, Postdoctoral Fellow in American Studies Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Professor Emerita Department of…