{"id":10156,"date":"2010-11-17T19:59:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T19:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10156"},"modified":"2014-11-08T18:58:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T18:58:53","slug":"sociology-professor-chronicles-rising-latino-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10156","title":{"rendered":"Sociology Professor Chronicles Rising Latino Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/campus_resources\/enewsroom\/inside_fordham\/november_15_2010\/in_focus_faculty_and\/sociology_professor__77568.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Sociology Professor Chronicles Rising Latino Culture<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Inside Fordham Online<br \/>\nFordham University<br \/>\nIn Focus: Faculty and Research<br \/>\n2010-11-15<\/p>\n<p><strong>Patrick Verel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Already the largest minority group in the United States, Latinos will be an even bigger presence in the years to come, according to demographic studies. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/academics\/programs_at_fordham_\/sociology__anthropol\/faculty\/clara_rodriguez_9333.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Clara Rodriguez, Ph.D.<\/a>, professor of sociology in Fordham College at Lincoln Center, is making sure their stories are told.<\/p>\n<p>Through 10 books, dozens of papers and consulting projects with Dora the Explorer and Sesame Street, Rodriguez has developed a deep knowledge about a group that now accounts for 15 percent of the population.<\/p>\n<p>Her analyses of United States census data have resulted in papers such as \u201cContestations Over Classifications: Latinos, the Census and Race in the United States\u201d (<em>Journal de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Am\u00e9ricanistes<\/em>, 2009) and \u201cImplications and Impact of Race on the Health of Latinos,\u201d a chapter in <em>Health Issues in Latino Males: A Social and Structural Approach<\/em> (Rutgers University Press, 2010).<\/p>\n<p>As part of her study of census data, Rodriguez cast a critical eye on racial classifications in the decennial censuses. Examining how respondents who identified themselves as Hispanic or Latino reported their race, she found that 40 percent chose \u201csome other race,\u201d and many of them wrote in what is known as a Latino identifier, such as Dominican, Panamanian or Chicano.<\/p>\n<p>This happened in the last three decennial censuses, despite the fact that the census allowed them to choose more than one racial category in the last census&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u201cPeople who could choose more than one race didn\u2019t choose white and black; they still chose the category \u2018some other race.\u2019 This 40 percent has increased\u2014I think this time it was 42 percent\u2014even though the Census Bureau has really tried to discourage this response,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis raises the question, \u2018What is race?\u2019 Science was raising that question. Children of mixed-race families were raising that question. So are people from all over the world who came here with very different identities and are now being folded into one of our five major groups.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/campus_resources\/enewsroom\/inside_fordham\/november_15_2010\/in_focus_faculty_and\/sociology_professor__77568.asp\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sociology Professor Chronicles Rising Latino Culture Inside Fordham Online Fordham University In Focus: Faculty and Research 2010-11-15 Patrick Verel Already the largest minority group in the United States, Latinos will be an even bigger presence in the years to come, according to demographic studies. 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