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  • Diverse Millennial Students in College: Implications for Faculty and Student Affairs

    Diverse Millennial Students in College: Implications for Faculty and Student Affairs Stylus Publishing, LLC. October 2011 320 pages 6″ x 9″ Cloth ISBN: 978 1 57922 446 2 Paper ISBN: 978 1 57922 447 9 Ebook ISBN: 978 1 57922 712 8 Library Ebook ISBN: 978 1 57922 711 1 Edited by: Fred A. Bonner…

  • An Inconvenient Truth: “Hispanic” is an ethnic origin, not a “race”

    An Inconvenient Truth: “Hispanic” is an ethnic origin, not a “race” National Institute for Latino Policy, Inc. 2013-08-24 Nancy López, Guest Commentator and Associate Professor of Sociology University of New Mexico Kenneth Prewitt’s provocative August 21st New York Times commentary calls us to “fix the census archaic racial categories.” He contends that the current national…

  • Some Critical Thoughts on the Census Bureau’s Proposals to Change the Race and Hispanic Questions

    Some Critical Thoughts on the Census Bureau’s Proposals to Change the Race and Hispanic Questions National Institute for Latino Policy, Inc. 2013-01-10 Nancy López, Guest Commentator and Associate Professor of Sociology University of New Mexico As a sociologist of racial, ethnic and gender stratification, I applaud the Census Bureau’s ongoing efforts to examine how we…

  • Latina/o Healing Practices: Mestizo and Indigenous Perspectives

    Latina/o Healing Practices: Mestizo and Indigenous Perspectives Routledge 2008-05-19 360 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-95420-4 Edited by: Brian McNeill, Professor and director of training for the Counseling Psychology Program Washington State University Joseph M. Cervantes, Professor in the Department of Counseling California State University, Fullerton This edited volume focuses on the role of traditional or indigenous…

  • Esther J. Cepeda: Debate grows over Hispanics and the 2020 Census

    Esther J. Cepeda: Debate grows over Hispanics and the 2020 Census San Jose Mercury News San Jose, California 2013-09-07 Esther J. Cepeda, Columnist The Washington Post CHICAGO—A debate is raging about whether the U.S. Census Bureau should offer Hispanics the option of identifying themselves as a separate race in the 2020 count. But let’s instead…

  • The Chican@ Hip Hop Nation: Politics of a New Millennial Mestizaje

    The Chican@ Hip Hop Nation: Politics of a New Millennial Mestizaje Michigan State University Press 2013-11-01 310 pages 6 in x 9 in Paperback ISBN: 9781611860863 eBook ISBN: 9781609173753 Pancho McFarland, Associate Professor of Sociology Chicago State University The population of Mexican-origin peoples in the United States is a diverse one, as reflected by age,…

  • Are Latinos “White”?

    Are Latinos “White”? Jesus For Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity 2013-08-30 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Hundreds of years of cultural politics underly the current debate over the proper racial categorization for Latinos.   For the greater part of U.S.…

  • Is George Zimmerman white, Latino or mixed race? Depends on who you ask.

    Is George Zimmerman white, Latino or mixed race? Depends on who you ask. The Seattle Globalist: Where Seattle Meets the World 2013-08-01 Leilani Nishime, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington, Seattle It’s been nearly two weeks since the George Zimmerman verdict was handed down, and the conversations in my Facebook feed have shifted from…

  • White-Race Problems: White Hispanic, White Black, Geraldo Rivera

    White-Race Problems: White Hispanic, White Black, Geraldo Rivera Living Anthropologically: Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility 2013-07-25 Jason Antrosio, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York A strange meme circulates, apparently fueled by Geraldo Rivera’s White Hispanic, Yellow Journalism. It goes like this: George Zimmerman is not really white, he’s Hispanic, and so the…

  • Voice of the voiceless? Multiethnic student voices in critical approaches to race, pedagogy, literacy and agency

    Voice of the voiceless? Multiethnic student voices in critical approaches to race, pedagogy, literacy and agency Linguistics and Education Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2013 pages 348–360 DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2013.03.005 Benji Chang, Adjunct Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Curriculum & Teaching Teachers College, Columbia University, New York In this article, the author utilizes critical…