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These groups were worried about the effects of COVID-19, economic inequality and the treatment of immigrants — pressing local issues. Yet their efforts had national ripple effects. UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Initiative called the Latino vote decisive in Wisconsin, where Biden won the battleground state. (Also: Yahoo News.)

News Articles & Media Coverage → Arts & Culture

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.”

Read More | April 19, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

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).

Read More | April 19, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Arts & Culture

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 … Continued

Read More | April 16, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

David Hayes-Bautista in Los Angeles Times: “COVID-19 vaccine inequities persist in L.A. County despite progress in underserved areas”

On top of an increased likelihood of exposure, Latinos also are less likely to have access to quality care due to long-entrenched structural inequities, “which is a recipe for not good things,” according to Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, a distinguished professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (Also: Yahoo).

Read More | April 15, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Immigrant Rights

UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Initiative (LPPI) in azcentral: “Brnovich takes on Biden’s immigration policies in court in series of federal lawsuits”

A study published last week by UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Initiative found that the implementation of the rule has created a “chill effect” among immigrant families that is expected to last for quite some time.

Read More | April 14, 2021

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