Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority
by Steven Phillips
Politics – Public Policy
#EmergingUS: Dear Donald Trump
This Multiracial ‘People’s Caravan’ is Trekking from the RNC to the DNC to Condemn Election-Season Hate | Colorlines
Invoking Holocaust, 1,000 rabbis deliver letter asking Congress to welcome refugees and “not make the same mistake”
Jewish leaders implore the U.S. to “welcome the stranger,” not to turn away refugees as it did during the Holocaust
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#RefugeesWelcome
Syrian Refugees and America’s Long History of Selective Immigration Policy
On November 13, 2015, Yazidi refugees In Derek, Syria, react to news that their homeland of Sinjar was liberated from ISIS extremists.
Photo: John Moore/Getty Images
If the Senate votes yes to the American SAFE Act that Congress passed last week, it will be much more difficult for Syrian civil war refugees to come into the United States. It’s just the latest in American immigration policy shaped by xenophobia and racism.
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The hypocrisy of #AllLivesMatter
Vote for Rinku Sen as a Racial Justice Leader
It isn’t easy to break down systematic racial biases, but she proves it’s possible.
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The Invention of Hispanics – Latino USA
Before 1970, the US Census Bureau classified Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rican immigrants as whites. Each community of Latin American origin would go by their nationality and by the region where they lived in the United States. But all that changed in the seventies, as activists began lobbying the US Census Bureau to create a broad, national category that included all these communities. The result was the creation of the term “Hispanic”, first introduced in the US Census in 1970.
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Source: latinousa.org
China Replaces Mexico as Top Sending Country of Immigrants to US
Source: researchmatters.blogs.census.gov
HBO’s Vice takes in-depth look at Alabama after harsh 2011 anti-immigrant bill | Latina Lista
By Obed Manuel
LatinaLista
“Them Hispanics work hard as hell,” Jesse Durr tells Vice correspondent Thomas Morton during a segment of Friday’s new episode titled “Sweet Home Alabama.”
Durr was one of the few people in Alabama who took on one of the thousands of agricultural jobs that undocumented immigrants left vacant after 2011, when the state’s governor signed the Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act, or HB56, into law.
The law intended to make life so difficult for undocumented immigrants in Alabama that they would have to leave the state or the country. Morton started reporting in January 2014 and spent the next six months checking in on the small independent farmers featured in the latest episode of Vice.
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Source: latinalista.com
Poor kids, rich schools – Where are you from? What do your parents do?
In his first few weeks as a freshman at the University of Chicago, Calvin Cottrell was constantly being asked the same questions: Where are you from? What do your parents do?
“I found those conversations kind of hostile, as the first person in my family to go to college. If you’re living with a roommate whose parents are heart surgeons from Connecticut, that feels very different,” he said.
Source: money.cnn.com
After college the questions become, “Where do you live?” and “What do you do?”
#identity
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