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Latinos in America: Are they outsiders-within?

I was flying cross country in mid September when I noticed that the airline’s peanut wrappers and napkins announced the arrival and importance of National Hispanic Heritage month.  While snacking I began to think about issues that prove important to members of this community, of which I am one.  Without a doubt there is much [...]

Latina/o students continue to be the least studied racial/ethnic population in postsecondary education (Hernandez, 1999; López, 2007; Solórzano, Villalpando, Osguera 2005) and are largely excluded from discussions of race.  One reason for this could be that Latinas/os are comprised of multiple ethnicities, skin tones, and geographic locations.  Latinas/os are not a designated race, despite descriptions [...]

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By Sarah Gonzales, “When our rights are under attack, what do we do?  Fight Back!” This slogan was a familiar chant at the many protests that took place this summer in Tucson, Arizona due in large part to the passing of SB 1070, the now infamous anti-immigrant law and HB 2281, which seeks to ban [...]

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By Delia Pompa To help about 5,000 of the nation’s most troubled schools, the Obama administration is offering competitive Race to the Top funds to districts that lift their caps on charter schools. This approach is just one part of a larger strategy to reverse the decline of failing schools in this country. When we [...]

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When I came up with the idea for this program, I figured I could together a group of Republicans and have a serious discussion about why the party has not succeeded among Latinos, and looks poised to do even worse in the years to come. As a guy who covers politics I figured we could [...]

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Thousands of people marched from Steele Indian School Park to the State Capitol. The march took place exactly two months before SB 1070 in implemented, and more actions against it are expected in the next 60 days. Marches and protests in Arizona have been the rule rather than the exception. In 2006, large demonstrations in [...]

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THE PASSING OF ARIZONA’S SB 1070 stirs up an already simmering pot of cultural conflict, just as a steady beat of enforcement rhetoric and punitive fearful talk about Mexicans lends itself to increased tension and eventually, violence. Democratic politicians and advocacy groups don’t help matters, even as they pose as champions. It’s you and me [...]

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Dear Obama Administration, instead of having our Drug Czar focus on addiction recovery and prevention programs, how about changing the policy of our racialized criminal justice system that has used the “War on Drugs” policy to put more Black males in the criminal justice system than slavery in 1850? Around this time last year, the [...]

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By Cheryl Staats, Research Assistant at the Kirwan Institute In the midst of the uproar surrounding comprehensive immigration reform and the devastating new law in Arizona that seemingly legalizes racial profiling, immigrants and their advocates and organizers are shouldering the strains of these significant challenges.  While these battles are ongoing, one bright spot has recently [...]

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This essay first appeared in the Mississippi Chicken DVD insert.  Reprinted with permission of the author and filmmaker. By Steve Striffler, Professor of Anthropology and Geography, University of New Orleans Mississippi Chicken is a true gem.  By letting us into the lives of immigrant poultry workers in Mississippi, this documentary captures much of what defines [...]

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