Latinos and the Shrinking White Majority | Black Agenda Report

Latinos and the Shrinking White Majority

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford

11 May 2021

🖨️ Print Article

Margaret Kimberley · Latinos and the Shrinking White Majority

The Census Bureau predicts that Anglo whites will become a minority in the US by 2145 -- but, what if significant numbers of Latinos embrace whiteness, and Anglo whites welcome them into the fold? “We see that happening already with the Ted Cruzes and Marco Rubios of the world,” said Dr Shantee Rosado, a professor of Afro-Latinx Studies at Rutgers University, whose book project is titled “Latinxs and the Emotional Politics of Race and Blackness in the U.S.” At the same time, however, “there is a push to say that race matters, mainly among indigenous and Black Latinos,” said Shantee.

Latinos

More Stories

Deutsche Welle
Burundi to Demand Colonial Reparations From Germany and Belgium
19 Aug 2020
The East African country is a former German colony and lived under Belgian rule until gaining independence almost 60 years ago.
Eric Umansky and Mollie Simon
The NYPD Is Withholding Evidence From Investigations Into Police Abuse
19 Aug 2020
The NYPD has regularly failed to turn over key records and videos to police abuse investigators at New York’s Civilian Complaint Review Board. “
Ahjamu Umi
Kamala Harris: Class Struggle and the Illusion of Identity in Capitalism
19 Aug 2020
Some Africans in America identify with people like Harris because THEY see their class interests, as she does, as being intertwined with the interests of the American capitalist system.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 17, 2020
18 Aug 2020
You Can’t Understand Capitalism Without Race
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Mumia: The Ravages of Capitalism-Fueled Contagion
18 Aug 2020
Social discontent rises with the level of fatalities and government incompetence during the current epidemic, said the nation’s best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal.