Hispanic Americans make up just 4.3% of executive positions. They are 17% of the labor force, the largest of any racial minority group.
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A scientist explains how she got a glimpse into the secret world of butterflies and her hopes of encouraging more Latinos to enter the field of science.
Over the years, Puerto Ricans have in fact been granted three different types of U.S. citizenship, but questions about their rights and equal treatment as citizens still remain.
Nine out of 10 rural places experienced increases in diversity from 1990 to 2010. Data show a more diverse future is guaranteed across all of America, and there's no going back.
Being Brazilian in the US means navigating an identity that doesn't neatly fit into a single check-box, and can be perceived in vastly different ways depending on what part of the country you're in.
A survey of voters shows white racial identity is on the rise. Psychologists explain how it's affecting the presidential election and how it will change American politics of the future.
Is xenophobic rhetoric enough to get Latinos to turn out in large numbers? An expert on Latino politics explains.
Polls show Trump and Hillary in a dead heat in the Peach State this year. An expert on Southern politics examines the possibility of Georgia turning blue.
All the anti-immigrant rabble-rousing appears to be backfiring.
A recent study concluded that children who watched Sesame Street in the 1970s fared better in school. Why?
The latest US Poet Laureate is known for work that re-thinks what it means to be American.
At an event that bills itself as 'the place to preview the technology of tomorrow today,' one of the fastest-growing, youngest and most tech-savvy segments of the population was largely ignored.
For more than 500 years, she has wandered, weeping and searching without rest. A ghostly woman in white who is said to have murdered her children, she is doomed to roam the earth, searching for their lost…
In the first of The Conversation’s video explainer series - produced in collaboration with SBS Online - Dr David Smith from the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney discusses the importance…
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Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division, Professor of Education, University of California, Berkeley
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Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies and Associate Professor, Department of English and Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, University of Texas at Austin
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Associate Professor of Communications, University of Oregon
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Lecturer in English (contemporary period), University of Bristol
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Assistant Professor of Multicultural Education, Teacher Education, and Childhood Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Gates Scholar in Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Political Science, University of Georgia
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Professor of English and Latino Studies, Columbia University
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Associate Professor of Psychology, New York University
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Professor of Social Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Roy C. Buck Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Political Science and El Instituto, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Sociology; Director, Center for Employment Equity, University of Massachusetts Amherst
