Category: Latino Studies

  • Latino Racial Reporting in the US: To Be or Not To Be Sociology Compass Volume 7, Issue 5 (May 2013) pages 390-403 DOI: 10.1111/soc4.12032 Clara E. Rodríguez, Professor of Sociology Fordham University Michael H. Miyawaki Fordham University Grigoris Argeros, Assistant Professor of Sociology Mississippi State University This review focuses on how Latinos report their race.…

  • Changing Race: Latinos, the Census and the History of Ethnicity New York University Press July 2000 283 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780814775479 Clara E. Rodríguez, Professor of Sociology Fordham University Latinos are the fastest growing population group in the United States. Through their language and popular music Latinos are making their mark on American culture as…

  • America is preoccupied with race statistics–perhaps more than any other nation. Do these statistics illuminate social reality and produce coherent social policy, or cloud that reality and confuse social policy? Does America still have a color line? Who is on which side?

  • Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego [FitzGerald Review] Journal of American History Volume 99, Issue 4 (2013) pages 1285-1286 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jas672 David FitzGerald, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, San Diego Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego. By Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2012.…

  • Results from the 2010 Census Race and Hispanic Origin Alternative Questionnaire Experiment U.S. Census Bureau Technical Briefing 2012-08-08 62 pages What is the AQE? The 2010 Census Race and Hispanic Origin Alternative Questionnaire Experiment (AQE) focused on improving the race and Hispanic origin questions by testing a number of different questionnaire design strategies… Overview of…

  • Suicidal Ideation in Hispanic and Mixed-Ancestry Adolescents Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior Volume 31, Number 4 (December 2001) pages 416-427 Rene L. Olvera, Associate Professor of Psychiatry University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio This survey examined differences in suicidal ideation, depressive symptomatology, acculturation, and coping strategies based on ethnicity. The author gathered data from…

  • CNN’s Soledad O’Brien on Her Entrepreneurial TV Future Bloomberg Businessweek 2013-03-07 Soledad O’Brien as told to Diane Brady I never really hesitated about going to Starting Point [which premiered on Jan. 2, 2012]. I thought there was an opportunity to get beyond the platitudes of “Yes, Medicare! No, Medicare!” and actually look at the Congressional Budget…

  • New Latin American pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio not a person of color? New York Amsterdam News New York, New York 2013-03-21 Courtenay Brown, Special to the AmNews The installation of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis I on March 13 caused a stir of questions regarding his race. Yes, he was the first pope from…

  • Creating a “Latino” Race The Society Pages: Social Science That Matters 2013-03-13 Wendy D. Roth, Associate Professor of Sociology University of British Columbia (Author of Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race) Editors’ Note: The author prefers to capitalize Black and White along with other socially constructed racial categories. For much of American…

  • Young Afro Latinos straddle both cultures Our Weekly: Our Truth, Our Voice Los Angeles, California 2010-09-23 Manny Otiko Hispanic heritage month celebrated Sept. 15-Oct. 15 When 2nd Lt. Emily Perez was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, she became the first female African American officer to die in combat. Perez, an outstanding West Point…