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The Dominican Grassroots Movement And The Organized Left, 1978–1986, Emelio Betances
The Dominican Grassroots Movement And The Organized Left, 1978–1986, Emelio Betances
Sociology Faculty Publications
Through their struggles for better services, grassroots movements played a large role in the process of democratization and construction of social citizenship in the Dominican Republic. The modern grassroots movement, especially in relation to the uprising of April 1984, challenged the government's neoliberal policies and opened the way for the emergence of an independent movement that confronted both left-wing parties and organized labor. However, because the gains from expanding social citizenship remained limited in the face of the Dominican state's inability to formulate socio-economic policies, the movements at best posed a worthwhile goal that Dominican society may revisit in the …
Latinos And The Colorline, Clara E. Rodriguez, Nancy Lopez, Grigoris Argeros
Latinos And The Colorline, Clara E. Rodriguez, Nancy Lopez, Grigoris Argeros
Sociology Faculty Publications
This essay reviews the issues and current literature on how “race,” skin color, and/or phenotype operate as stratifying agents among Latinos in the United States. We review the trends and emerging issues in this area with regard to health, housing and segregation, and socioeconomic status (SES), including education and criminal justice.We do so in the context of the Census Bureau’s release of its 2010 Alternative Questionnaire Experiment (AQE) study. This 5-year study focuses on how to best ask the race question. One of the key findings of the study was that including “Hispanic/Latinos” as a race in the combined questionnaire …
Census, Clara E. Rodriguez, Grigoris Argeros
Census, Clara E. Rodriguez, Grigoris Argeros
Sociology Faculty Publications
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