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View article: Black and Some Other Race: Examining Shifts in the Black Latino Population in the Census Bureau’s 2020 Race Question
Black and Some Other Race: Examining Shifts in the Black Latino Population in the Census Bureau’s 2020 Race Question Open
The 2020 census race question featured a write-in response area to the Black race category as a way to capture detailed race responses. Evidence suggests that respondents who wrote a Hispanic or Latino origin response (i.e., Dominican or P…
View article: Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Essential Workers, Mental Health, and the Coronavirus Pandemic
Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Essential Workers, Mental Health, and the Coronavirus Pandemic Open
Evidence is emerging of the pandemic disproportionately impacting communities of color. This study investigates mental health distress among essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic across race and ethnicity. We evaluate individua…
View article: Distance Learning and Parental Mental Health During COVID-19
Distance Learning and Parental Mental Health During COVID-19 Open
As COVID-19 cases continue to increase across the country, there is a concern about the extent to which this pandemic will affect students. Since March 2020, schools transitioned to a distance-learning format, which unintentionally forced …
View article: Consensus Memo Responding to Initial Proposals for Updating OMB’s Race and Ethnicity Statistical Standards (Federal Register 2023-01635)
Consensus Memo Responding to Initial Proposals for Updating OMB’s Race and Ethnicity Statistical Standards (Federal Register 2023-01635) Open
This consensus memo represents our collective, transdisciplinary response to the Office ofManagement and Budget’s call for comments on initial proposals to (1) collect race and ethnicity information using one combined question; (2) add “Mi…
View article: ‘Black and Some Other Race?’: Examining Shifts in the Black Latino Population in the Census Bureau’s Modified Race Question
‘Black and Some Other Race?’: Examining Shifts in the Black Latino Population in the Census Bureau’s Modified Race Question Open
This study leverages sample data from the American Community Survey (ACS) to assess how changes to the 2020 race question influence the odds of multi-race classification for Black Latinos. Our results suggest that most Black Latino origin …
View article: Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Essential Workers, Mental Health, and the Coronavirus Pandemic
Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Essential Workers, Mental Health, and the Coronavirus Pandemic Open
Evidence is emerging of the pandemic disproportionately impacting communities of color. This study investigates mental health distress among essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic across race and ethnicity. We evaluate individua…
View article: Asian Americans’ Indifference to Black Lives Matter: The Role of Nativity, Belonging and Acknowledgment of Anti-Black Racism
Asian Americans’ Indifference to Black Lives Matter: The Role of Nativity, Belonging and Acknowledgment of Anti-Black Racism Open
This paper assesses how ongoing historical racism and nativism as embedded within U.S. culture requires new and important dialogues about the omnipresence of White supremacy and its interconnected mechanisms that divide communities along t…
View article: Out of the Class and Into the Shadows: Immigration Enforcement and Education Among U.S.-Citizen and Foreign-Born Hispanics
Out of the Class and Into the Shadows: Immigration Enforcement and Education Among U.S.-Citizen and Foreign-Born Hispanics Open
With the recent escalation in interior immigration enforcement across the United States, immigrant and U.S.-born children are increasingly exposed to coercive measures that have been shown to disrupt their development. This study examines …
View article: Distance Learning and Parental Mental Health During COVID-19
Distance Learning and Parental Mental Health During COVID-19 Open
As COVID-19 cases continue to increase across the country, there is a concern about the extent to which this pandemic will affect students. Since March 2020, schools transitioned to a distance-learning format, which unintentionally forced …
View article: COVID-19 Is Having a Devastating Impact on the Economic Well-being of Latino Families
COVID-19 Is Having a Devastating Impact on the Economic Well-being of Latino Families Open
Latino Americans are more likely than non-Hispanic whites to contract COVID-19 and to face disproportionately high mortality rates when they contract the virus. What has not been well understood is the impact COVID-19 is having on the econ…
View article: Voting in a Pandemic: Explaining Variation in Support for Absentee Ballots for All
Voting in a Pandemic: Explaining Variation in Support for Absentee Ballots for All Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed all aspects of American life, including, for many, how we vote. We explore the question of who supports unrestricted absentee ballots during a pandemic. We argue that women are more likely to…
View article: THE COLLABORATIVE MULTIRACIAL POST-ELECTION SURVEY (CMPS): BUILDING THE ACADEMIC PIPELINE THROUGH DATA ACCESS, PUBLICATION, AND NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES
THE COLLABORATIVE MULTIRACIAL POST-ELECTION SURVEY (CMPS): BUILDING THE ACADEMIC PIPELINE THROUGH DATA ACCESS, PUBLICATION, AND NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES Open
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View article: Latino parents' links to deportees are associated with developmental disorders in their children
Latino parents' links to deportees are associated with developmental disorders in their children Open
Aims To examine how Latino parent's personal connection to immigrants is linked to their children's risk of being referred/diagnosed with a developmental disorder. Methods Using the 2015 Latino National Health and Immigration Survey ( n = …
View article: Latinos’ connections to immigrants: how knowing a deportee impacts Latino health
Latinos’ connections to immigrants: how knowing a deportee impacts Latino health Open
This manuscript examines how personally knowing a deportee and/or undocumented immigrant affects the mental health of Latina/o adults. Utilizing a new survey sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at the U…
View article: What’s Your “Street Race”? Leveraging Multidimensional Measures of Race and Intersectionality for Examining Physical and Mental Health Status among Latinxs
What’s Your “Street Race”? Leveraging Multidimensional Measures of Race and Intersectionality for Examining Physical and Mental Health Status among Latinxs Open
Using the 2015 Latino National Health and Immigration Survey (N = 1,197), we examine the relationship between physical and mental health status and three multidimensional measures of race: (1) street race, or how you believe other “America…
View article: The Impact of Punitive Immigrant Laws on the Health of Latina/o Populations
The Impact of Punitive Immigrant Laws on the Health of Latina/o Populations Open
This study examines how anti‐immigrant policies affect the physical health of Latina/os in the United States. Merging two unique datasets: sum of anti‐immigrant policies by state from 2005 to 2011 and a 2011 Robert Wood Johnson Center for …
View article: Fear by Association: Perceptions of Anti-Immigrant Policy and Health Outcomes
Fear by Association: Perceptions of Anti-Immigrant Policy and Health Outcomes Open
The United States is experiencing a renewed period of immigration and immigrant policy activity as well as heightened enforcement of such policies. This intensified activity can affect various aspects of immigrant health, including mental …
View article: Immigration Policies and Group Identity: How Immigrant Laws Affect Linked Fate among U.S. Latino Populations
Immigration Policies and Group Identity: How Immigrant Laws Affect Linked Fate among U.S. Latino Populations Open
Immigrant sentiment, measured by the number of state laws enacted to curb the flow of undocumented immigration or expand rights to immigrants, have been on a steady incline since September 11, 2001. Despite the increased attention to unaut…
View article: Mixed‐Status Families and WIC Uptake: The Effects of Risk of Deportation on Program Use*
Mixed‐Status Families and WIC Uptake: The Effects of Risk of Deportation on Program Use* Open
Objective Develop and test measures of risk of deportation and mixed‐status families on women, infants, and children (WIC) uptake. Mixed‐status is a situation in which some family members are U.S. citizens and other family members are in t…
View article: Civic engagement and political participation among American Indians and Alaska natives in the US
Civic engagement and political participation among American Indians and Alaska natives in the US Open
Within the growing literature seeking to understand civic and political engagement among racial and ethnic minorities, our understanding of political behavior among American Indian and Alaska Native's (AI/AN) remains limited. We use the Cu…
View article: Taking a Closer Look at Group Identity
Taking a Closer Look at Group Identity Open
Scholarship in the area of group identity has expanded our understanding of how group consciousness and linked fate operate among racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States. What is yet to be tested is whether the measures…
View article: Latina/o or Mexicana/o? The Relationship between Socially Assigned Race and Experiences with Discrimination
Latina/o or Mexicana/o? The Relationship between Socially Assigned Race and Experiences with Discrimination Open
Discrimination based on one’s racial or ethnic background is one of the oldest and most perverse practices in the United States. Although much research has relied on self-reported racial categories, a growing body of research is designed t…