Democrats do no good when they kick Hispanic Republicans to curb (Opinion)
Democrats do no good when they kick Hispanic Republicans to curb (Opinion)
- November 21, 2017
- Ruben Rumbaut, sociology, is mentioned in The Hill, Nov. 21, 2017
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In my own book, “A Race for the Future,” I quote University of California Irvine sociologist Ruben Rumbaut as remarking that this was “the first and only law in U.S. history that defines a specific ethnic group.” At the time, nobody batted an eyelid. The effort from the start was to create a minority group out of Mexican-Americans, something rank and file Mexican-American themselves did not want, incidentally.
For the full story, please visit http://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/361359-democrats-do-no-good-when-they-kick-hispanic-republicans-to-curb.
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