College of Letters & Science
Curious about the constitutional amendment referendum on the ballot for the November 5th election? CLS faculty can help. This week, CLS affiliate professor Ben Márquez joined host Chali Pittman and guest John Nichols on the Tuesday edition of WORT radio’s “A Public Affair” to discuss the proposed change, which would amend Section 1 of Article …
Can committed professional activists, paid by granting agencies to work through the legal system, change the world? That’s the question former CLS director Benjamin Márquez asks in The Politics of Patronage: Lawyers, Philanthropy, and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, to be published in July of this year by the University of Texas …
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 argues that class differences, occupational niches, and different Cold War histories are central to understanding Latinx voters’. Ibarra argues that …
The Latino Caucus of the American Political Science Association has chosen CLS Director Armando Ibarra’s co-authored book The Latino Question: Politics, Laboring Classes, and the Next Left for the 2019 Best Book in Latino Politics Award. The caucus will recognize Prof. Ibarra and his collaborators, Alfredo Carlos of California State University Long Beach and Rodolfo Torres …
Latinx politics in Wisconsin was in the national spotlight recently as the President visited Milwaukee for a fundraising dinner and Democratic Presidential hopefuls spoke to the League of United Latin American Citizens’ 2019 Convention. On July 9th, CLS Affiliate Professor and former Director Ben Márquez spoke to Wisconsin Public Television’s “Here and Now” about the …