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Latinos Facing Racism: Discrimination, Resistance, and Endurance by Joe R. Feagin; José A. Cobas; José A. Cobas
Call Number: E184 .S75 F43 2014
ISBN: 9781612055541
Publication Date: 2013-11-30
Drawing on extensive interviewing, the authors address the recurring discrimination of ordinary whites directed against Spanish speakers and individuals with presumed Latino phenotypes.. The book also chronicles the mistreatment that Latinos face from immigration officials and from the police when they are racially profiled outside Latino areas. Critical and conforming Latino responses to recurring white discrimination are also extensively examined, as well as the diverse Latino reactions to remedial programs like affirmative action and to the ideal of assimilation.
Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos by Juliet Hooker
Call Number: E449 .D75 H66 2017
ISBN: 0190055863
Publication Date: 2019-04-01
By juxtaposing four prominent nineteenth and twentieth-century thinkers - Frederick Douglass, Domingo F. Sarmiento, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Jose Vasconcelos - her book will be the first to bring African-American and Latin American political thought into conversation. Hooker stresses that LatinAmerican and U.S. ideas about race were not developed in isolation, but grew out of transnational intellectual exchanges across the Americas. In so doing, she shows that nineteenth and twentieth-century U.S. and Latin American thinkers each looked to political models in the "other" America toadvance racial projects in their own countries.

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Mestizo, Negro, Blanco—What Does it Mean? Racism and Colorism’s Effects in the Latinx Community
NON-BLACK PEOPLE OF COLOR NEED TO START HAVING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE ANTI-BLACKNESS IN OUR COMMUNITIES
SOMOS FOR BLACK LIVES
Prominent leaders of dozens of Latinx organizations wrote in an op-ed published in The Miami Herald and posted Tuesday on a website, somosforblacklives.com to address racism and colorism in the Latinx community.

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