Latinos Are Georgia Politico’s “Favorite” Aliens

Latinos Are Georgia Politico’s “Favorite” Aliens

Mary Mata February 10, 2011

Sigh. Big sigh. Georgia Congressman Phil Gingrey, a Republican, recently visited the border on a fact-finding mission (to make sure it’s there, or what?) with other politicos to check out […]

People Of Mixed Race Confuse U.S. Racial Categories

Mary Mata

Deciding what “race” means in the U.S. is a long and storied history, books, dissertations, films, documentaries, poems, etc. have covered the subject, but now The New York Times takes […]

As Latinos Become White, The U.S. Becomes Latino

Mary Mata January 24, 2011

Recently, the idea that Latinos shouldn’t receive focused political attention because eventually, like Italian and Irish immigrants before them, they will eventually assimilate and become “white” has been tossed around. Particularly, […]