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Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas in Peninsula Press: “The GOP’s best bet to accelerate gains with Latinos? It may be more Trumpism”

Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas, the director of research at UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute, lamented the fact that Latino voters have typically been treated as a monolith by political pundits. He adds, “Latinos are the second-largest voting group in the country and we just don’t do the same yet, at least not until recently.”

Professor Noriega in Los Angeles Times: “Hollywood’s treatment of Latinos is an open wound. Healing it requires a reckoning”

“Since Hollywood’s earliest days, white Americans needed to see nonwhites as different, not similar, said Chon Noriega, a veteran UCLA film historian and the departing director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.”

LPPI in The Daily Wire: “MSNBC Host: Democrats Are ‘Way Out of the Mainstream’”

A post-election report by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative of 13 key states found that Biden won the Hispanic vote three to one in nine states. “Only in Florida was Biden’s margin among Latino voters less than 2 to 1,” it said.

Dr. Noriega in Wrap Pro: “How ‘In the Heights’ Could Flip the Script on Hollywood’s Sketchy History With Latino Culture”

Chon Noriega, professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television and former director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, said that “In The Heights” is a welcome counter to Hollywood’s decades-long tendency to not only stereotype Latinos as maids, gang-bangers and sex symbols but also to homogenize the various cultures of Latin…

Dr. Dominguez in HITN Television: “Entrevista con Rodrigo Dominguez I Estudio DC”

Rodrigo Dominguez’s appearance in Estudio D.C. discussing Biden’s immigration plans and the urgency for Congress to pass an immigration reform that is inclusive of the entire undocumented population.

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