What do you know about AfroLatinos?
July 17, 2023 - Nancy Lopez
Professor of Sociology and affiliate faculty member in Africana Studies Nancy López was recently interviewed (7/15/23, 7 min) on Univisión en Los Angeles (en español), AfroLatinos, a Growing Population in US, What do you know about AfroLatinos?
In the interview, Dr. López talks about a recent UCLA report entitled Centering Black Latinidad: A Profile of the US Afro-Latinx Population and Complex Inequalities, and explains why keeping two separate questions on Hispanic origin and race as analytically distinct is necessary for understanding and eliminating complex inequalities in labor market outcomes, poverty, health outcomes, housing, etc.
