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Deconstructing the ‘Latino Vote’: Myths, Realities and Missed Opportunities

Sonja Diaz appeared on KQED’s “Latino Vote” to discuss Latinos in the 2020 elections. “Thinking about the invisibility of Latinos, that this is not simply a political issue, but goes across all parts of our institutions, among society — not just newsrooms — but Hollywood and media and entertainment. To academia, to philanthropy. The lack of…

Read More | February 8, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Gender & Sexuality

‘Economic disaster’: California lawmakers consider more aid to Latinas hit hard by COVID

Mary J. Lopez, an economics professor at Occidental College and policy expert for the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute, said the unequal job recovery for Latina Californians results “in a widening gap between Latinas and whites.”

Read More | February 8, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

What impact will Latino voters have on North Carolina in the future?

A report by UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute showed that Latinos helped flip two states — Arizona and Georgia — where they collectively make up about 80% of the nation’s Latino electorate, along with 11 other states.

Read More | February 8, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Criminal Justice

UCLA Mellon Grant to Establish Archive About Mass Incarceration

The collaboration “will preserve the documentary evidence of mass incarceration and its impact on people’s lives in Los Angeles while building a new digital bedrock for racial justice scholars and scholarship at UCLA,” said Kelly Lytle Hernandez, director of the Bunche Center and a 2019 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, commonly referred to as the “genius…

Read More | February 8, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

The Pandejo Movement Destroyed California’s Pandemic Progress

“Let’s put it like this: It would be a surge for any [group] with these characteristics,” says David Hayes-Bautista, the director of UCLA’s Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture. “It just so happens that Latinos occupy that space” in Southern California.

Read More | February 8, 2021

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