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

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio February 3, 2023
03 Feb 2023
This week we learn about the destruction of a Black community in Portland, Oregon and the legal efforts at restitution, and the struggle to fight for reform of the cash bail system in Minnesota. But…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Cuba, Africa, and Apartheid’s End: Africa’s Children Return - Part 2
03 Feb 2023
Isaac Saney is a Cuba and Black studies specialist and historian at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Albina Community Fights for Restitution of Seized Property
03 Feb 2023
We now turn to a discussion of Albina, a Black community in Portland, Oregon which was devastated by so-called urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s. The final blow came in the early 1970s, when an…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Minnesota Freedom Fund Fights for Bail Justice
03 Feb 2023
We are joined by Elizer Darris, Co-Executive Director of the Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF).
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The US Continues Escalating in Ukraine
01 Feb 2023
The U.S. got more than it bargained for after instigating the Ukrainian conflict. The Biden foreign policy team grows more desperate and their plans become more dangerous as they reckon with the…

Related Podcasts

More Stories