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Eric Avila in The Washington Post: “Interstate highways paved with racial injustice”

“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.” Urged on by officials like Robert Moses, New York’s “master builder,” cities were sold on the idea of highway construction as a way…

Kelly Lytle Hernández in The Nevada Independent: “Nevada Judge Says Immigration Law Making Reentry A Felony Is Unconstitutional, Has Racist Origins”

She cited the arguments of Kelly Lytle Hernández, a history professor at UCLA, who traced the legislative history of the law to the 1920s when the government established quotas based on national origin. Hearings on bills during that time included arguments from proponents of eugenics and compared those crafting deportation laws to “successful breeders of…

Sonja Diaz in The New York Times: “Can Gov. Newsom Keep His Job? A Recall Effort in California Shows a Dead Heat.”

But Sonja Diaz, the director of the Latino Policy and Politics Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, said Democrats seemed to be playing catch-up as the Delta variant preoccupied voters.

LPPI in The Washington Post: “The party that wins Hispanics will win elections. But that means really listening to them.”

According to a study by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute, Hispanic voters helped Biden eke out his narrow wins in Arizona, Wisconsin, and Georgia — without which Trump would still be president. But the report’s authors characterized Hispanics not as an in-the-bag Democratic constituency but as a “swing electorate” to whom both parties…

Michael Méndez in UCI School of Social Ecology: “Seeking social justice in disaster”

Michael Méndez, assistant professor of urban planning and public policy, has received a National Science Foundation Early Career Faculty Award. Administered by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the award comes with a $400,000 grant for two years of research on his project, “Are Undocumented Latino/a and Indigenous Migrants Worthy Disaster Victims?”

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