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Racial and Ethnic Differences in Access to Photo-ID in Texas
By Gabriel R. Sanchez, Stephen A. Nuño, and Matt A. Barreto Last week the Department of Justice blocked the Texas photo-identification law that requires voters in the state to show a state issued...
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The Supreme Court, Health Care Reform, and Latinos
By Jillian Medeiros, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of New Mexico This week the Supreme Court has been debating the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, passed by...
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Projecting Latino Electoral Influence in 2012: What Percent of the Latino...
Matt A. Barreto, Ph.D. and Gary M. Segura, Ph.D., Latino Decisions We get asked the question about “Latino influence” from the press weekly—some weeks, daily. Answering the question is easy if you...
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Latino Issue Priorities Linked to Presidential, Congressional Approval and...
By Ali A. Valenzuela, Assistant Professor of Politics, Princeton University Will President Obama lose Latino voters in the 2012 election because of his administration’s immigration enforcement regime...
View ArticleTaking a Closer Look at Latino Pan-ethnic Identity
A recent report released by the Pew Hispanic Center indicated that the pan-ethnic terms of Latino and Hispanic do not resonate well with the population that they are intended to define. More...
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Identifying a Relationship Between Latino Representation in Congress and...
By Ricardo Ramirez, Gabriel R. Sanchez, and Shannon Sanchez-Youngmann Although all eyes will be focused squarely on the race for the white house this year, there are several important races taking...
View ArticlePanethnic Identity: Building Understanding By Taking on Complexities
Findings in The Pew Hispanic Center’s recent study, “When Labels Don’t Fit: Hispanics and Their Views of Identity” generated buzz among those interested in the dynamics of ethnic identity and American...
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How the Exit Polls Misrepresent Latino Voters, and Badly
Did you know that, despite running exceedingly racialized anti-Latino advertisements in Nevada’s Senate race, Sharon Angle got 30% of the Latino vote? Jan Brewer also did well, attracting an...
View ArticlePuerto Rico, A Latino 51′st State of the Union?
As plebiscitary debates in Scotland and Cataluña continue to grow, the debates over the outcome of the 2012 Puerto Rican plebiscite appear to be waning with the change of government in the island....
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Blacks and Latinos face more discrimination in states fully covered by Voting...
New brief filed with Supreme Court documents higher rates of prejudice, voting discrimination and inequality faced by African Americans and Latinos in jurisdictions fully covered by Section 5 of the...
View ArticleWe still need the Voting Rights Act to give equal access
This article was originally published at NBC LATINO These days, voting is largely uneventful. You show up at the polls, check in, vote, and get your sticker. Long gone are the days of having to...
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Supreme Court ignores extensive social science evidence of voting...
Research from 2013 documents higher rates of prejudice, voting discrimination and inequality faced by African Americans and Latinos in jurisdictions fully covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act....
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How Latino Voters May Decide Control of the U.S. House of Representatives
Despite growing popular support among non-Latinos both nationally and in key swing states in favor of immigration reform that includes a pathway to citizenship, the conventional wisdom suggests that...
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Can the Internet be a Door to Increased Latin@ and African American...
By Jessica Lavariega Monforti & Jose Marichal Could the key to increasing civic engagement among Latinos and African Americans be computer classes? A growing body of research is linking Internet...
View ArticleWhen We All Become the Immigration Police
By Helen B. Marrow, TuftsUniversity In July 2011, Governor of Alabama Robert Bentley signed into law a sweeping new anti-immigration bill. Hailed by Republican lawmakers as the “harshest” in the...
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Latinos Rising: Consequences of the 2011 Nevada Redistricting
David F. Damore, University of Nevada, Las Vegas What a difference a decade makes. In 2001, despite constituting 20% of Nevada’s population, Latinos received little to no consideration in the state’s...
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Searching for a National Latino Leader
A recent blog to the Latino Decisions page noted that Susana Martinez and Marco Rubio, both mentioned as possible Vice Presidential candidates, were largely unknown by Latino voters. While somewhat...
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Language Translation and Latino Health Outcomes
The issue of language translation has concerned survey researchers for some time. While much of this work has been conducted by scholars interested in making comparisons across nations with differences...
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The Sotomayor Nomination: Evidence of Panethnic Political Interest
Do Latinos share common political interests, or, does in-group variation produce oppositional intra-group politics that negate panethnic politics? President Barack Obama’s historic nomination of...
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Racial and Ethnic Differences in Access to Photo-ID in Texas
By Gabriel R. Sanchez, Stephen A. Nuño, and Matt A. Barreto Last week the Department of Justice blocked the Texas photo-identification law that requires voters in the state to show a state issued...
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