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  • Will Today’s Hispanics Be Tomorrow’s Whites?

    Will Today’s Hispanics Be Tomorrow’s Whites? Slate 2014-04-15 Jamelle Bouie, staff writer covering politics, policy, and race How Hispanics perceive themselves may shape the future of race in America. The Trayvon Martin shooting was hardly in the national consciousness before fault lines emerged around the case. Was Martin as innocent as he seemed? Did Zimmerman…

  • The Next America

    The Next America Pew Research Center 2014-04-10 Paul Taylor, Executive Vice President of Special Projects Demographic transformations are dramas in slow motion. America is in the midst of two right now. Our population is becoming majority non-white at the same time a record share is going gray. Each of these shifts would by itself be…

  • ‘Mexican,’ ‘Hispanic,’ ‘Latin American’ top list of race write-ins on the 2010 census

    ‘Mexican,’ ‘Hispanic,’ ‘Latin American’ top list of race write-ins on the 2010 census Pew Research Center 2014-04-04 Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research Jens Manuel Krogstad, Writer/Editor Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends Project What is your race? The U.S. Census Bureau asks this question of every U.S. household, but the menu of options offered…

  • Where Did “Hispanics” Come From?

    Where Did “Hispanics” Come From? Sociological Images: Inspiring Sociological Imaginations Everywhere 2014-03-29 Claude S. Fischer, Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley One may well wonder where the term “Hispanic,” and for that matter, “Latino,” came from. The press and pundits are all abuzz about the Hispanic vote, Hispanic organizations, and Hispanic cultural influences. Back…

  • Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American

    How did Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Cubans become known as “Hispanics” and “Latinos” in the United States? How did several distinct cultures and nationalities become portrayed as one? Cristina Mora answers both these questions and details the scope of this phenomenon in “Making Hispanics.”

  • Race Reporting Among Hispanics: 2010

    Race Reporting Among Hispanics: 2010 United States Census Bureau Population Division Washington, D.C. 20233 Working Paper No.102 March 2014 Merarys Ríos Fabián Romero Roberto Ramírez Since the release of the 2010 Census Race and Hispanic Origin Alternative Questionnaire Experiment (AQE) report in August 2012, much has been written about the AQE results (Compton et al., 2012; Hill…

  • U.S. Census looking at big changes in how it asks about race and ethnicity

    U.S. Census looking at big changes in how it asks about race and ethnicity Pew Research Center 2014-03-14 Jens Manuel Krogstad, Writer/Editor at the Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends Project D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer at the Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project The Census Bureau has embarked on a years-long research project intended…

  • The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies inaugural issue is now available

    The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies inaugural issue is now available Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies Volume 1, Number 1 (2014-01-30) ISSN: 2325-4521 Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University of California at Santa Barbaral Saya…

  • Black history month is a token tribute, but Afro-Latinos don’t even have that

    Black history month is a token tribute, but Afro-Latinos don’t even have that The Guardian 2014-02-26 Icess Fernandez Rojas The US has a designated celebration for about every group, but if you’re of mixed heritage, you’re on your own I cringe every time February rolls around. For me, black history month has become predictable. First,…

  • Afro Latinos’ Mixed Identity Can Leave Them Out of the Mix

    Afro Latinos’ Mixed Identity Can Leave Them Out of the Mix NBC News 2014-02-27 Patricia Guadalupe and Suzanne Gamboa Afro Latino Marco Davis laughed when he recalled the lengths he went to keep in touch with black and Latino alumni groups when he graduated from Yale University. “One year I would put down that I…