{"id":45803,"date":"2016-02-28T15:01:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T15:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45803"},"modified":"2016-02-28T15:01:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T15:01:44","slug":"new-du-bois-review-study-confirms-the-obvious-u-s-latinos-are-not-becoming-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45803","title":{"rendered":"New Du Bois Review Study Confirms the Obvious: U.S. Latinos Are Not \u2018Becoming White\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Du Bois Review Study Confirms the Obvious: U.S. Latinos Are Not \u2018Becoming White\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Latino Rebels<\/a>
\n2015-05-28<\/p>\n

Julio Ricardo Varela<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Last year, we spent a lot of time countering slippery claims and misreporting by several nationally recognized writers (specifically Jamelle Bouie<\/a> and Nate Cohn<\/a>) who were pushing a mainstream media narrative<\/a> that more and more U.S. Latinos were becoming \u201cWhite\u201d in this country. The pieces<\/a> we published from several contributors<\/a> were quick to refute<\/a> how writers like Bouie and Cohn lacked any real knowledge or understanding of this topic.<\/p>\n

A new study called \u201cLATINA\/O WHITENING? Which Latina\/os Self-Classify as White and Report Being Perceived as White by Other Americans?<\/a>\u201d was recently published in the Du Bois Review<\/em>. Dr. Nicholas Vargas<\/a>, the study\u2019s author, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas. After reading Vargas\u2019 study<\/a> (you can download the full study here<\/a>), our founder and publisher @julito77<\/a> sent Dr. Vargas a few questions via email. Here is what Dr. Vargas sent back to us:<\/p>\n

What prompted you to do this study?<\/strong><\/p>\n

VARGAS<\/strong>: As I became more familiar with the scholarly literature on assimilation, a literature that is informed primarily by the assimilation trajectories of Eastern and Southern European groups of the early 20th century, I came across a number of arguments that Latina\/os would soon be following in their footsteps. The argument is that Latina\/os will come to identify as White and look back on their Latina\/o identities much the same way that many Whites today look back to a detached Irish or Italian heritage. Some of these arguments suggested that Latina\/o racial self-identification as White on the U.S. Census and other surveys could be a sign that the process of Latina\/o Whitening is already underway. Journalists proclaimed that if Latina\/os are identifying as White, then they are probably \u201cbecoming White\u201d the same way that others have in the past…<\/p>\n

Read the entire interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Du Bois Review Study Confirms the Obvious: U.S. Latinos Are Not \u2018Becoming White\u2019 Latino Rebels 2015-05-28 Julio Ricardo Varela Last year, we spent a lot of time countering slippery claims and misreporting by several nationally recognized writers (specifically Jamelle Bouie and Nate Cohn) who were pushing a mainstream media narrative that more and more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,13743,14646,8,4481,20],"tags":[23079,17998,21614],"class_list":["post-45803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-interviews","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-social-work","category-usa","tag-julio-ricardo-varela","tag-latino-rebels","tag-nicholas-vargas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45804,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45803\/revisions\/45804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}