Taking Measures: AfroLatin@s and Economic Inequities
11:00am - 12:30pm
Graduate Center of The City University of New York
This panel will discuss the rampant economic disparities among Latin@s as they correspond to racial differences. We will examine how patterns of colorism and other forms of discrimination underlie and generate gaping differences in terms of many socio-economic variables, including levels of poverty, depressed wages and labor conditions, unemployment, and housing. The panel will also critically explore available and purported mechanisms for accruing wealth, such as entrepreneurship and higher education, and consider possible advocacy, policy initiatives and community activism to address these many unexamined sources of economic injustice.
Graduate Center of The City University of New York
This panel will discuss the rampant economic disparities among Latin@s as they correspond to racial differences. We will examine how patterns of colorism and other forms of discrimination underlie and generate gaping differences in terms of many socio-economic variables, including levels of poverty, depressed wages and labor conditions, unemployment, and housing. The panel will also critically explore available and purported mechanisms for accruing wealth, such as entrepreneurship and higher education, and consider possible advocacy, policy initiatives and community activism to address these many unexamined sources of economic injustice.