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“When communities have very solid social umbrellas, covid is not going to make much headway,” said David E. Hayes-Bautista, director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine. “But when you get communities that have great big, gaping holes — lack of health insurance, lack…
Read More | March 29, 2021
David Hayes-Bautista, a UCLA professor of medicine and public health, said that Latinos have kept working through the pandemic. “In Washington, the idea is you’re poor because you don’t work. That’s not the issue with Latinos,” Hayes-Bautista was quoted in a report.
RadioBilingue (March 15, Spanish) interviewed Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, about the impact of the pandemic on California’s Latinos.
The UCLA Latino Politics and Policy Initiative looked at voting data from the 2020 election and concluded that Biden took 75% of the Latino vote in Maricopa County, which accounts for 60% of the state’s population. Unlike in many other parts of the country, a Democratic grassroots effort to get out the vote knocked on…
Chon Noriega, director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, says that some Chicano directors who focused on gang stories “were looking toward works like the Oscar-winning The Godfather as a model for bringing their stories into the mainstream” and should not be accused of exploitation.
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