Category: Latino Studies

  • The Color of Change: Voting Rights in the 21st Century and the California Voting Rights Act Harvard Latino Law Review Volume 15 (2012) pages 184-231 Joanna E. Cuevas Ingram University of California, Davis Table of Contents INTRODUCTION I. THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 AND THE CALIFORNIA VOTING RIGHTS ACT II. U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISIONS…

  • Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies University of Georgia Press 2013-02-01 288 pages 5 b&w photos Trim size: 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-4435-5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-4436-2 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-4479-9 Claudia Milian, Associate Professor of Spanish & Latin American Studies Duke University With Latining America, Claudia Milian proposes that the economies…

  • The Lure of Whiteness and the Politics of “Otherness”: Mexican American Racial Identity University of Texas, Austin 2004 185 pages Julie Anne Dowling Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the The University of Texas at Austin In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Using a…

  • Afro-Latino/a Identities: Challenges, History, and Perspectives Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 9, Issue 1 (2012-04-20) Article 5 Sobeira Latorre, Assistant Professor of Spanish Southern Connecticut State University Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores, editors, The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010), 584 pp. The Afro-Latin@…

  • Latinos may get own race category on census form The Seattle Times 2012-08-30 Lornet Turnbull, Staff Reporter Under proposed changes under consideration by the Census Bureau in its once-a-decade census forms, Latino and Hispanic would be added to the list of government-defined races, rather than being listed separately as an ethnicity. And people from the…

  • Rosario Dawson and the Ambiguous Blackness of Latinidad antenna 2012-08-05 Keara Goin As has become abundantly clear to me over the course of my research, in the context of contemporary popular U.S. racial discourse, one is either Latina/o or Black, not both. Moreover, we see this phenomenon replicated in U.S. cinema, where characters played by…

  • Census to Change Categories on Race The Associated Press 2012-08-09 The Census Bureau wants to make broad changes to its surveys to keep pace with changing notions of race. The changes would drop use of the term “Negro,” leaving a choice of “black” or “African-American.” It would count Hispanics as separate from blacks and whites.…

  • The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States (review) Callaloo Volume 35, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 548-551 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2012.0030 Daynali Flores-Rodriguez, Adjunct Professor of Spanish Inter-American University of Puerto Rico Jiménez Román, Miriam, and Juan Flores, eds. The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States. Durham: Duke UP, 2010. Published a…

  • Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America New York University Press November 2012 272 pages 10 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9780814765463 Paper ISBN: 9780814765470 Antonio López, Assistant Professor of English George Washington University In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a…

  • Afro Latinos: everywhere, yet invisible Our Weekly 2011-10-06 Cynthia Griffin Struggles with self-image, assimilation mirror Black American experience Last year, during a discussion on increasing the number of African Americans in Major League Baseball, Angel’s centerfielder Torii Hunter in a USA Today interview called the dark-skinned Latino baseball players “imposters” and said they are not…