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Tall and pale = more money on the job
5:20 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Labor| race · 1 Comment
31 Jan 2007
If you are an immigrant who’s tall or light-skinned, you’re likely to make more money than your shorter, darker-skinned counterpart, according to research by a professor at Vanderbilt University:
Joni Hersch, a law and economics professor at Vanderbilt University, looked at a government survey of 2,084 legal immigrants to the United States from around the world and found that those with the lightest skin earned an average of 8 percent to 15 percent more than similar immigrants with much darker skin.“On average, being one shade lighter has about the same effect as having an additional year of education,” Hersch said.
90 years and life for hate crime against Latino youth
6:58 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice| Texas| race · Comments Off
12 Dec 2006
Last month we told you about a hate crime in Houston in which a Latino youth was brutally beaten and sexually abused by a white youth because he tried to kiss white girl. Now, one of the accused in the case, Keith Turner, faces 90 years in prison.
A jury gave a 17-year-old Texan a 90-year jail sentence on Monday for his part in a brutal and racially motivated assault on a Hispanic youth.“The jury has recommended 90 years for Keith Turner,” a clerk at the 209 Criminal District Court in Houston told Reuters.
The clerk said Turner had 30 days to appeal the sentence and if it remained in place he would not be eligible for parole for at least 30 years.
Turner was convicted on Friday of aggravated sexual assault for the April incident in which the victim was sodomized by a plastic pipe, stomped and burned during an attack at a house party.
His friend, David Tuck, 18 was sentenced to life last month.
Via / Alertnet.org
Black and Brown
7:48 pm By Maegan La Mala · Education · 2 Comments
28 Aug 2006
Historically Black colleges are recruiting Latinos. According to an AP report earlier this month covered by both CNN.com and USAtoday.com
A great move for historically Black colleges since:
a. the country is moving towards becoming a greater mixture of colors, to embrace that fact is to embrace a more realistic sample of the population,
b. the creation of a more united minority front is just what the colored population of this country needs (especially in terms of voting and economic power) and,
c. learning how to understand Black culture (all Black people are not drug dealers), and Latino culture (all Latinas aren’t sluts who liked to be called “Mami”), will only lead to a greater understanding and respect of each.
And who knows, maybe both Latinos and Blacks will realize the fate of one minority group in the United States is the fate of them all? Maybe they’ll do something about it?
But is it a great move for Latinos?
The immigration debate and black America
2:36 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| race · Comments Off
6 Apr 2006
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
Kids’ t-shirts cause a stink at school
9:37 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| children · 1 Comment
31 Mar 2006
Being a kid just isn’t as it used to be. Especially since now if you wear an innocent t-shirt you’ll be accused of inciting racial violence. All of this the age of five:
A Hispanic second grader and kindergarten student in Virginia were sent home from school Friday for wearing homemade T-shirts that read “Latinos Forever” written in Spanish…
Todd Erickson, principal of Occoquan Elementary School, told the Potomac News that he was concerned the T-shirts would disrupt classes because a protest–the fourth in a week–was taking place Friday in Woodbridge.
“Today it was obvious, straight up, totally clear what was going on,” Erickson said.
Um, what was clear? What was going on? I don’t get it. They are FIVE and EIGHT for the love of God.
“How is that going to disrupt a kindergarten class?” Carmen Soriano, Joseph’s mother, asked.
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
What would you do?
1:42 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · TV| race · Comments Off
24 Mar 2006
I rarely watch network TV, but last night I was lucky enough to catch a fascinating episode of ABC’s Primetime entitled “What would you do?” ABC conducts experiments to see what people what people would do in certain situations: if they saw a child getting beaten up by other kids in a park, a couple fighting, etc. But I was particularly interested in the segment called “Taxi Cab Slurs”.
The premise is simple: put an actor in taxi cab as the driver and have him go off on a racist tirade to see how the passenger reacts, if at all. All of this is caught on hidden camera, of course.
They started out in New Jersey, where they picked up a business woman who is described as “Puerto Rican”. The driver starts going off on “Arabs” and the woman looks uncomfortable. Slowly she starts to counter his claims saying something like “I don’t agree because that would be prejudice and I am not anywhere close to being prejudiced.” Well, maybe not against middle eastern people, but what about Asians? When given the chance, this “woman of color” starts on Asians and can’t stop. Her prize-winning moment is when, in talking about the way Chinese people drive, she says “You know they can’t see right to left out of their eyes.” Classy.
Latino or Hispanic ad nauseum
3:15 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Culture| race · 8 Comments
3 Mar 2006
It’s the most commonly discussed question on Latino blogs: is the correct term “Latino” or “Hispanic”? And why do we still care?
For whatever reason, this topic continues to ignite debate throughout the Latino (can you tell which one I’m partial to?) community. And what exactly does “Hispanic” mean?
The Latin Americanist asks:
What is a Hispanic? Or a Latino? Which is a race, which is a cultural distinction? Where do Brazilians fit into all of this??? What if your parents are from Europe but you were born in Argentina and your only language is Spanish??? What if your parents are from Mexico but you were born in the US and your only language is English??? What if we were allowed to check up to five different boxes for race/ethnicity on the census?
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