I’m Tired Of Talking About Race — Aren’t You?

I’m tired of talking about race. The topic makes me want to concurrently take a nap and scream. Though I’ve been talking about it for a long time now, ever […]

¿Eres indio? That seems to be the question on the minds of many Latinos these days, if a recent New York Times article is to be believed. The gist of […]

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Ricardo Sanchez To Run For Senate In Texas San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro: Immigration Initiative Soon Mexican & Mexican-American Are Not The Same Thing Analysis: Senate Democrats Re-Introduce The DREAM […]

So, yesterday, as I was looking through the News Taco comments, I came across a real zinger. The commenter in question, presumably a man, didn’t use his real name, but […]

As a Latina who not only was raised to be aware of these issues, but who’s studied in them in school and written about them professionally for several years, I […]

The Center for American Progress has put together both an interactive map with Census data and an infographic called “The New Demographics,” see it below. The map, “America’s Changing Demographics,” shows […]

African-Americans and immigrants are often pitted against each other by politicians in this country trying to convince us all that there’s only so much to go around, and so we […]

An analysis of 2010 Census data by USA Today revealed that Hispanics in states with some of the largest Hispanic populations categorized themselves by race more often than in the […]

“You don’t look Mexican” is something I hear a lot. I hear it from whites, African-Americans, Asians, Mexican nationals, Latinos from Latin America, just about everyone. Of course, in polite […]