Category: Latino Studies

  • The ambiguity of racial categories The Washington Post 2015-06-16 Andrew Gelman, Professor of Statistics and Political Science Columbia University, New York, New York Racial classification has been in the news lately with the story of Rachel Dolezal, the NAACP official who is ethnically white but characterized herself as black until the story came out: The…

  • Is being Hispanic a matter of race, ethnicity or both? Pew Research Center 2015-06-15 Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, Research Associate Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research When it comes to reporting their racial identity, Latinos stand out from other Americans. In the 2010 census, for example, 94% of the U.S. population selected at least one of…

  • How Fluid Is Racial Identity? Room for Debate The New York Times 2015-06-17 Heidi W. Durrow, Novelist Amanda Kay Erekson, President MAVIN Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law University of Iowa Nancy Leong, Associate Professor of Law University of Denver Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research Pew Research Center…

  • Afro-Latinas: Finding A Place To Belong New Latina 2012-03-12 Tracy López, Editor-in-Chief Latinaish: Una Gringa Biena Latina Identity – It’s something every human being wrestles with at some time in their life – some more than others. For Afro-Latinas, self identifying can be especially difficult. The sense of ignored, unrecognized and invisible, is prevalent among…

  • Caution and Skepticism About Univision-TheRoot Merger All Digitocracy 2015-06-03 Jillian Báez, Assistant Professor of Media Culture College of Staten Island, City University of New York TV Network’s history of racism and colorism may not bode well for website formerly owned by The Washington Post Company Two weeks ago Spanish-language television giant Univision announced its acquisition…

  • How A Latina-Asian American Ascended Amazon’s Ranks NBC News 2015-05-29 Stephen A. Nuño, Associate Professor of Politics & International Affairs Northern Arizona Univeristy If you have ever bought anything from the online retail giant, Amazon.com, you probably didn’t know that a multicultural woman is one of the managers leading the work behind the scenes with…

  • The Invention of Hispanics Latino USA 2015-05-22 Hosts: Marlon Bishop, Producer Camilo Vargas, Producer Guest: G. Cristina Mora, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley Before 1970, the US Census Bureau classified Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rican immigrants as whites. Each community of Latin American origin would go by their nationality and by the…

  • White Puerto Rican Migration and the Effacement of Blackness UPLIFTT: United People for Latinos in Film, TV and Theater 2015-02-13 William Garcia t was August 2009 when I was admitted to the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras and that what was when I first saw the amalgamation of a new breed of Puerto…

  • The Afro-Latino experience in the U.S. VOXXI 2012-02-09 Rosalba Ruiz Growing up in South Los Angeles in the 1970’s, Armando Brown never thought about his multiracial identity. “When I was growing up, I was black,” Brown, a 45-year-old photojournalist, says. “It was never an issue.” The son of a creole man from New Orleans and…

  • Blaxicans (Black Mexicans) of California African American – Latino World 2015-04-07 Bill Smith This post is not about the black Mexicans who were historically born and raised in Mexico, but those born and raised in Los Angeles, California’s metropolitan area to Mexican and African-American parents. According to the University of Southern California researcher Walter Thompson-Hernández,…