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Matt Barreto in Crosscut: “Proposed WA redistricting maps may violate Voting Rights Act”

Matt Barreto, faculty director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project and an expert on Latino voting patterns, said that’s a problem because the Yakima Valley has both a large Latino population and a well documented history of racially polarized voting, in which Latino voters consistently choose different candidates than white voters.

Maria Samaniego & Rodrigo Dominguez Villegas in Nonprofit Quarterly: “How We Can Dismantle the Noxious Myths that Undermine Racial Justice”

Last year marked the beginning of a racial reckoning, spurred by the tragic murder of George Floyd and a pandemic that disproportionately ravaged the wealth and health of non-white Americans. Across the country, white Americans found themselves pressed to recognize inequities that, for years, communities of color have been screaming into a void about.

Silvia González in UCLA Newsroom: “UCLA scholars aim to help shape President Biden’s Justice40 Initiative”

“A theme across the states we studied is a history of grassroots strategy and organizing by communities of color,” said Silvia González, a co-author of the report and the director of research at the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute. “In states such as California, New York, and Illinois, those communities have helped shape investment…

Michael Méndez in UCI News: “UCI researcher gets NSF-backed grant to study wildfires’ effects on farmworkers”

Michael Méndez of the University of California, Irvine has received a two-year, $400,000 grant from the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s Early Career Faculty Innovator Program. It will fund a joint project with researchers at NCAR – which is sponsored by the National Science Foundation – to explore the disparate treatment of undocumented Latino/Latina and…

Jason De Leon in Documented NY: “Vigil Pushes for Humane Treatment of Black Migrants”

Anthropologist Jason De Leon of UCLA was inspired by data of remains found throughout Arizona’s border. Most of the deaths were steered by a change in an immigration policy carried out in 1994. Border Report

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