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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, author of the book “Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism” and a professor of law at University of California, Los Angeles, said she thinks so.
Read More | September 15, 2021
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”.
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…
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.
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…
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