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Race in America

From The Social Contract, KC McAlpin on the rise and demise? of the Latino ethno-nationalists. A review of Life Behind the Lobby: Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream by Pawan Dhingra. Gram Slattery writes in defense of the ethnic enclave. Help black children, sure; teens, not so much: New research finds support for school projects differs according to the race and age of the recipients. A review of The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera: An Insider's History of the Florida-Alabama Coast by Harvey Jackson. The introduction to Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America by Jennifer Hochschild, Vesla Weaver and Traci Burch. A review of The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States. An interview with Erin Chapman, author of Prove It On Me: New Negroes, Sex, and Popular Culture in the 1920s. It has always been difficult to convince Anglo-Americans that they should know more about Latinos. The first chapter from Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal by Cybelle Fox.