What Hispanics we interviewed wish people understood about Latinos in Lancaster:Linda Espenshade
*In this analysis, "Hispanic voters" consist of all respondents who identified as Hispanic when asked about their race, regardless of their voting status at the time of the survey because this status as an active voter can easily change. The general electorate consists of all respondents who we...
This term refers to groups who have been denied access and/or suffered past institutional discrimination in the United States and, according to the Census and other federal measuring tools, includesAfrican Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics or Chicanos/Latinos, and Native Americans. Who are underr...
Now America’s middle class, which consist of mainly Blacks and Hispanics are under invasion. This is what I call Racial and Ethnic Inequality. A race is defined as a person’s physical features, such as their hair, eye color, bone structure, and the icing on top of the cake a person...
For those of us who are a different ethnical group such as Hispanics and Latinos we are believed be individuals who come from Mexico and bring drugs along with criminals. Being the daughter of two immigrant parents I am expected to fail as compared to those who are of a higher and white ...
” The “No Child Left Behind Act,” instituted in 2001 by the Bush administration, sought to “close the achievement gap” with federally mandated tests and annual targets. Instead a “race to the bottom“ ensued. The term describes how states lowered standards to allow more students to ...
Although interrogating Baldwin online to prove a substantial connection to Spain feels like a worthy, even delicious cause, Latinos (like, actual Latinos, not merely Hispanics) can perhaps use the moment to admit something about ourselves and how we value language, race and ethnicity. Hear...
Orozco analyses the roles of gender, race, class, and origin the book shines as an admirable case of a critical social approach to a social movement. I extremely recommend this book to anyone who wants more in depth knowledge of the Mexican American social movement. Latinos struggled with ...
Racial profiling has been in the news a lot lately with the deaths of black people such as Michael Brown and Eric Garner, both of whose deaths lead to public outroar, protests, and violent riots. Because of these and other deaths, people are beginning to open their eyes on the long stan...
At the end of the day, a judge's race and gender may have less impact on how she decides a particular case than how the larger public perceives the court on which she sits. In a society in which African-Americans and Hispanics, in particular, report high rates of dissatisfaction and la...