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Claudia Sandoval in Univision: “Voto latino, clave para ayudar a Gavin Newsom a permanecer como gobernador de California” (Spanish)

Los latinos constituyeron aproximadamente el 25% de todos los votantes en la elección revocatoria que definía el futuro del gobernador de California, Gavin Newsom. Para Claudia Sandoval, analista política y profesora de la Universidad Loyola Marymount, estos comicios fueron un claro ejemplo de “la fuerza y la importancia del voto latino”.

Read More | September 15, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Sonja Diaz in KQED: “Statewide Election Special: The 2021 California Gubernatorial Recall”

Sonja Diaz, founding director of UCLA’s Latino Policy & Politics Institute, is a guest speaker on KQED discussing California’s recall election. California’s recall process has been called undemocratic, confusing, and inordinately expensive. We look at proposals both to change it, such as increasing the number of signatures required to put a recall on the ballot…

Read More | September 15, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Latino Policy and Politics Institute in The New York Times: “After Newsom’s Decisive Victory, Californians Tally the Cost”

Though it was far from unanimous, the majority of Latino voters backed Mr. Newsom, with some Latino-heavy precincts defeating the recall by as much as 88 percent, according to an analysis by the Latino Policy and Politics Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Read More | September 15, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Diversity & Inclusion

Laura Gómez in Insider: ” Latinos are reimagining Hispanic Heritage Month to highlight diversity”

Given that people with cultural connections to Latin America hold divergent thoughts about how to identify themselves, would changing the name of Hispanic Heritage Month be productive? Laura Gómez, the author of the book “Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism” and a professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles, said…

Read More | September 15, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas in Telemundo 52: “La Importancia del Voto Latino en la Elección de Destitución”(Spanish)

“Latino voters are the second largest group of voters in California, and the size of the Latino electorate has more than doubled since the last recall election in 2003”, said Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas, LPPI research director.

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