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Statement From UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute Executive Director Sonja Diaz in Response to the Verdict of the Derek Chauvin Trial

Statement from Sonja Diaz, Executive Director of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute on the verdict of the Derek Chauvin trial:

Laura E. Gómez in The 19th: “How the pandemic has widened the Latina wealth gap”

“The very fact of treating Latinos as an ethnic group as opposed to as a racial group is part of the way Latinos have been racialized in the United States,” says Laura E. Gómez.

Efrén Pérez in The Columbus Dispatch: “Opinion: Could ‘cancel culture’ cancel structural injustice?”

Efrén Pérez, associate professor of political science and sociology at Vanderbilt, calls implicit bias “an umbrella term for a variety of attitudes, beliefs, knowledge and stereotypes that we all carry to some degree. They tend to be automatically triggered, hard to control and can often influence what we say and do without our awareness.”

Nicholas Espíritu in The Conversation: “Democratic bill attempts to undo voter restrictions of past 15 years”

LPPI Expert Nicholas Espíritu writes on the new voting rights legislation, For the People Act of 2021 (H.R.1), sponsored and passed in the House by Democrats and unanimously opposed by Republicans. He argues that H.R.1 aims to remove barriers and structural hurdles to voter participation and fairness (Also: Yahoo! News).

Chon Noriega in The Hollywood Reporter: “Danny Ramirez Lifts Off with ‘Falcon and the Winter Soldier'”

“A lot of the excitement had to do with the introduction of a new character, Joaquín Torres, and the sense that he would evolve into the next superhero,” says Chon Noriega, a UCLA professor of film, television and digital media, of Ramirez’s Falcon debut. “But there’s another reason for the excitement. Often, Latino characters that appear…

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