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Essential and Excluded: The Paradox of Assimilation in the United States

Nov 18 2020
While Trump has bragged about not paying taxes, immigrants and their advocates have stressed immigrants’ contributions to the United States. We’re reminded that immigrants pay billions of dollars in taxes annually and fill jobs that most US citizens don’t want.
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For Hispanic Heritage Month—Why We Need to Build Toward a Latinx Future

Oct 08 2020
By Catherine S. Ramírez, author of Assimilation: An Alternative History“Hispanics are not just a significant part of our Nation’s origin; they are essential to America’s future.”US Senators Orrin G. Hatch and Paul Simon, on the creation of National Hispanic Heritage Month, April 15, 1988Each
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Recommended Reading in the Aftermath of Mass Shootings

Aug 08 2019
Understanding the history and motives for the United States's deeply embedded, systematic, and institutionalized racism against minorities and immigrants, and the acts of brutal violence that have ensued over and over again, can be aided by the research UC Press has published in the list compiled be
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