Heather O’Connell (Wisconsin) and Carla Shoff (Penn State): Spatial Variation in the Relationship between Hispanic Concentration and County Poverty: A Migration Perspective. Andras Lenart (Szeged): Hispanic Hollywood: Spanish-language American Films in the 1920s and 1930s. Nicholas Vargas (Texas): Latina/o Whitening?: Which Latina/os Self-Classify as White and Report Being Perceived as White by Other Americans? Nate Cohn on how more Hispanics are declaring themselves white. Why are more Mexicans calling themselves white? Gustavo Arellano investigates (and more on “gabachos”) Will today’s Hispanics be tomorrow’s whites? How Hispanics perceive themselves may shape the future of race in America. Gary Segura and Ruy Teixeira on the myth of the "white" Latino: Sloppy analysis of Census data is giving the Republican Party false hope. Why did Republicans give up on Hispanics? Fear of a Non-White Nation: Republicans have a deep-seated fear of the country's changing demographics. A look at why Hispanics don’t have a larger political voice. Models of the internal colonialism and ethnic relations: Mehmet Odabasi and Idris Guclu on the case of Cubans and Puerto Ricans in the United States. “A matter of death and death”: Aura Bogado on confronting anti-black racism among Latinos. Maximo Anguiano on the unknown history of Latino lynchings. Roberto A. Ferdman on the great American Hispanic wealth gap: America's Hispanic population might offer one of the clearest examples of wealth inequality in the US. Does decline in Spanish fluency in Hispanic households signal a cultural loss or growing inclusion in American society? Julio Ortega reviews Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (and more and more).
