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National Politics

Is there a “Latinx Vote?” Armando Ibarra Analyzes the Election in “The Progressive”

Posted on November 25, 2024

Is there such a thing as “the Latinx Vote?”  In the wake of the 2024 election, pundits have been focusing on an apparent shift from Democrats to Republicans by voters of Latin American descent. Former …

Posted in NewsTagged Armando Ibarra, CLS in the News, Latino vote, National Politics

Ben Márquez speaks with the New York Times on LULAC

Posted on November 12, 2024

When the New York Times’s Jazmine Ulloa needed background for a story on the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), she turned to UW-Madison’s Benjamin Márquez.  The Times noted that LULAC, the country’s oldest Latina/o …

Posted in NewsTagged Benjamin Marquez, Civil rights organizations, CLS in the News, Community Organizations, LULAC, National Politics

Aurora Santiago-Ortiz on Puerto Rico, its Diaspora, and the Elections

Posted on October 31, 2024

A joke about Puerto Rico at a Trump campaign rally this past Sunday has left many Puerto Ricans feeling insulted and has focused national attention on the archipelago and its diaspora. To help sort the …

Posted in NewsTagged Aurora Santiago-Ortiz, CLS in the News, National Politics, Puerto Rico, WPR

Armando Ibarra discusses Migration and the Election with “Palabra”

Posted on October 29, 2024

CLS faculty member Armando Ibarra shared his thoughts on migration and the upcoming US election with reporters Alfredo Corchado and Dudley Althaus of the online news outlet Palabra for a recent story about the politics of migration. …

Posted in NewsTagged Armando Ibarra, CLS in the News, Elections, Immigration, National Politics

Benjamin Márquez Discusses Immigration and the Election on PBS Wisconsin

Posted on October 4, 2024

As the 2024 Presidential election enters its final stretch and debates on immigration become increasingly heated, CLS faculty like Benjamin Márquez are helping journalists and the public understand the situation. In an interview with PBS …

Posted in NewsTagged Benjamin Marquez, CLS in the News, Immigration, National Politics

Benjamin Márquez quoted in NPR stories on Latino Vote

Posted on August 30, 2023

When NPR’s Franco Ordoñez needed context for a story on the Latine vote in Wisconsin and a later follow-up, he turned to CLS affiliate faculty member and former Director Benjamin Márquez (Political Science).  Prof. Márquez …

Posted in NewsTagged Benjamin Marquez, CLS Faculty, CLS in the News, National Politics, NPR

CLS Faculty/Staff Statement in Response to the Chauvin Trial

Posted on April 22, 2021

The undersigned faculty and staff of the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison hail the Minnesota jury’s guilty verdict on the charges in the death of George Floyd. This verdict is …

Posted in NewsTagged Faculty Statements, Human Rights, National Politics, White Supremacy

CLS Faculty and Staff Response to Anti-Asian Violence

Posted on March 19, 2021

As details emerge about the murderous attacks on businesses in Georgia, one thing should be clear. Nearly two centuries of open structural racism and sexual imperialism against people of Asian descent cannot be reduced to …

Posted in NewsTagged Faculty Statements, Human Rights, National Politics, White Supremacy

CLS Director Armando Ibarra on the “Latino” Vote

Posted on November 25, 2020

In the aftermath of the 2020 election, the mainstream press has struggled to understand the voting behavior of U.S. communities of Latin American descent.  In a recent op-ed for The Progressive, CLS Director Armando Ibarra …

Posted in NewsTagged Armando Ibarra, Faculty op-eds, National Politics, Politics

CLS Affiliate Prof. Barbato Calls for an End to Immigration Detention

Posted on October 12, 2020

Erin Barbato, a CLS affiliate faculty member in the UW School of Law and the director of the University’s Immigrant Justice Clinic, has published a forceful editorial in the Capital Times calling for an end …

Posted in NewsTagged CLS Faculty, Erin Barbato, Faculty op-eds, Human Rights, Immigration, National Politics, UW Law School, White Supremacy
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