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Eric Avila in The Philadelphia Inquirer: “Interstate highways were touted as modern marvels. Racial injustice was part of the plan.”

“Blight was a code word used to identify Black, working-class communities,” said Eric Avila, a UCLA historian and author of The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City. The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 promised 41,000 miles of asphalt. And when it became time to finalize route plans, Avila said, “race…

Matt Barreto in CNN Politics: “Newsom nationalizes California recall as he fights for his job”

The messaging is a smart use of California’s political tilt for Newsom, said Matt Barreto, a professor at UCLA and a top adviser to “Building Back Together,” the outside political group aligned with Biden. “California is even more Democratic in national politics than it is in state politics. It is a smart move to remind…

Sonja Diaz in The Los Angeles Times: “Latinos were hardest hit by COVID-19. Now, Newsom needs them to thwart recall”

“The issue is not whether Latinos are in favor of the recall,” said Sonja Diaz, director of the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute. “The real issue is, will nonwhite voters turn out to cast a ballot? If they do, then Gov. Newsom will remain in the governor’s mansion.”

Matt Barreto in CNN Politics: “Latino voters could be key to Gavin Newsom keeping his job”

“This is happening in an off year, in an off month — we are on the tail end of summer — so there was a lot of hand ringing in the summer, but no one was paying attention to the recall. There was no enthusiasm gap because there was no enthusiasm,” said Matt Barreto, a…

Efrén Pérez in The Washington Post: “The U.S. is more racially diverse than ever. Will people of color unify politically?”

In early August, the U.S. Census Bureau confirmed what many ordinary Americans have long intuited: The United States is a significantly more racially diverse nation than it was before. Yet the dominant narrative around this result remains one of White decline, with an assortment of racial “minorities” picking up this demographic slack.

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