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Eric Avila in Los Angeles Daily News: “Things to do in the San Fernando Valley, LA area, Aug. 12-19”

The Fowler Museum at UCLA presents a talk by Eric Avila, a professor of history and Chicana/o Studies at UCLA, 4-5 p.m. Aug. 19. The talk is based on Avila’s 2014 book of the same name. Register in advance for the online talk here: bit.ly/3lT6X7J. Find more lectures from the Fowler Museum here: fowler.ucla.edu/events/

LPPI in Yahoo News!: “Campaign arm of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus jumping in Southwest redistricting fights”

An analysis of precincts by the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute in Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico showed that President Biden won U.S. Latino voters by a 3-to-1 margin in the race against former President Trump.

Dr. David Hayes-Bautista in Radio Biligüe: “The language of Race and Ethnicity in Medicine. Also, Biden’s Plan on Clean Cars.”

Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA questions the use of current racial and ethnic categories to measure human similarities and differences; at a time when the number of mestizo or mixed-race people is increasing rapidly, many find it hard to fit into the US official Racial-Ethnic

Matt Barreto in Tampa Bay Times: “As extremes shape voter ID debate, the rules keep getting stricter”

A team led by Matt Barreto, a UCLA political scientist who conducts polling for the Democratic National Committee and the White House, examined election surveys between 2008 and 2014 in which eligible voters were asked whether they had access to an ID. Collectively, the surveys found that whites were the most likely to have a…

Kelly Lytle Hernandez in The Bulletin: “Federal judge in illegal reentry case suggests Congress ‘disavow’ past racism in immigration laws”

The judge quoted Kelly Lytle Hernandez, a history professor at UCLA, who testified that Congress designed much of its immigration policy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries “to filter out undesirable immigrants.”

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