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Study: “Illegal” immigration hurting African Americans

2:31 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|race · 5 Comments

10 May 2007

We’ve written a number of times over the past two years about the topic of using the immigration debate as tool to pit the Latino community against the African American community. I wish we didn’t have to write about it again, but it keeps coming up:

New research by Carol Swain, professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt University, found that illegal immigration is hurting African Americans. And, according to Professor Swain, the Congressional Black Caucus is not addressing this issue.

In her essay in the newly released volume Debating Immigration, which Professor Swain edited, she said that African Americans are losing more jobs to illegal immigrants than to other racial or ethic groups, yet low income black workers don’t have political input in the debate.

Latinos vs. Blacks for jobs, revisited

6:01 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|Labor|Media|race · Comments Off

24 May 2006

A while back we wrote about how it seemed that the media was making a whole lot more of the contention between Latinos and African-Americans with regard to a struggle for jobs than what reality really tells us. Before that, we’d already written a few times about the Latino vs. black rhetoric that’s out there. Today there’s yet another piece on this issue (or non-issue, however you choose to view it):

Hispanics and blacks tend to gravitate to the same inner-city areas and low-skill labor markets – and the result is a clash over jobs that require less skill and less education, experts say.

“In this era of mass immigration, no group has benefited less or been harmed more than the African-American population,” says Vernon Briggs, a Cornell University professor who researches immigration policy and the American labor force.

What do you think? Is this issue driving a wedge between Latinos and African-Americans or is it just media hype?

Latinos and African Americans working side by side is nothing new. Just check out the image — circa 1930 (you can see it large by visiting the third link below).

Image via the University of Texas

The immigration debate and black America

2:36 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|race · Comments Off

6 Apr 2006

Cultural%20Resources.jpg Here we go again: more divisive rhetoric from the media, pitting black America against immigrants. The headline of the article referenced is not an accurate reflection of what is contained in the piece; the article actually has a lot more blacks standing up for immigrants than the opposite. This builds off of Mala’s post from this morning, and is probably the tenth time we’ve talked about the black vs. Latino issue on VivirLatino.

As Congress tussles with immigration reform, many African-Americans worry that more undocumented workers would make it tougher to earn a good living — and to close stubborn economic gaps between blacks and whites.

Newcomers make black progress harder — they’re “taking us back, us black people,” said Wesley Crawford, who works at Source of Knowledge, a bookstore and gift shop in Newark. “It’s a misconception that they’re taking jobs we don’t want. If you give people a good job, they will work.”

The NAACP president disagrees:

“People are yielding to the temptation to pit black against brown,” he said. “This has existed for years, but it’s deceptive.”

Deceptive and counter-productive. In this game of the strong and the weak, the “us” and the “them”, the only thing that this does is make them stronger and us weaker.

Via / Newsday

Latinos and blacks more entrepreneurial

1:18 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · business|race · Comments Off

30 Mar 2006

According to a Florida International University study, Latinos and blacks are more likely to be entrepreneurs than the rest of the population. From Black Enterprise:

According to Entrepreneurship in the U.S., a report by Florida International University, blacks are more inclined than whites of the same gender or educational background to start a business. Among blacks, those with college degrees or graduate experience are most likely to be involved in a business startup.

The dramatically higher entrepreneurial tendency is true only for startup businesses, those with no payroll history for more than three months. For new businesses, those running three to 42 months, degreed blacks and Hispanics have a smaller lead in probability of business participation over their white peers. For established firms, those operating more than 42 months, degreed blacks and Hispanics have similar or lower probabilities of participation than their white peers.

The article also suggests that the corporate “glass ceiling” may be a source of frustration for black and Latino business people, compelling them to start their own business endeavors.

Via / Black Enterprise

Chocolate New Orleans: Anti-Latino rhetoric?

6:56 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|race|society · 4 Comments

17 Jan 2006

New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin is at it again. He’s surfacing now to promote not just the rebuilding of New Orleans (I thought he had moved to Dallas?), but the rebuilding of a “Chocolate New Orleans”.

WTF?

“I don’t care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day,” Nagin said in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech. “This city will be a majority African-American city. It’s the way God wants it to be.”

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