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Latinos and the Shrinking White Majority

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford

11 May 2021

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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.

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