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1. Arizona’s SB 1070 and the Legalization of Racial Profiling

   TweetIn 2010, the Arizona state legislature passed a blatantly racist law, SB 1070. One of its most notorious provisions (Section B) is particularly loathsome. It requires officers of the law who have “lawful contact” with …

2. Anti-Immigrant Legislation and Private Prison Labor: A Modern Day Slavery

   in turn as laborers. While work is not a mandatory discipline within all private prisons, it is a discipline that is highly incentivized. Private prisons use discipline to control, manipulate and subject their prisoners and turning them into machines or “docile bodies” that will give them cheap labor.

3. Targeting Latino Children is Not the Answer

   Tweet A recent article published in the New York Times by Kirk Semple reports that federal officials have had to send a memo to various states and school districts informing them that asking for citizenship …

4. Latino Population Growth and the Arizona Nativism

   Tweet Texas A&M University social demographer and sociologist Rogelio Saenz has some revealing statistical data in his recent Population Reference Bureau piece titled “Latinos, Whites, and the Shifting Demography of Arizona”: He first notes the …

5. A Matter of Technicality, Not Racial Contestation: The Coming SB 1070 Challenge

   TweetIt appears the Obama Administration and Justice Department will be challenging Arizona’s immigration law, otherwise known as SB 1070, although no lawsuit has been filed yet. If recent events are any indication, the forthcoming lawsuit …

6. The Many Costs of Racism

   Tweet We have all heard the story that America is a nation of active citizens and joiners (Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840) — resulting in a citizenry that joins together for the common good. However, according …

7. Professor Soto’s Speech, from a Listener: More on Arizona Whites Hostility to Immigrants

   TweetJosé Cobas encountered the internet uproar over the graduation speech by Prof. Sandra Soto at the University of Arizona on May 14, and asked me what I thought. Here is my response, with a few …

8. White Attacks on Anti-Racist Academic in Arizona

   Tweet InsideHigherEducation describes the hostile comments and threats a Latina faculty member got for giving a short 10-minute faculty speech at the graduation convocation recently at the University of Arizona’s College of Social and Behavioral …

9. Sociologists without Borders Petitions Governor Jan Brewer in Arizona

   Tweet Sociologists without Borders has prepared this statement on behalf of the human rights of immigrants of color, and other people of color, in the state of Arizona: To: Arizona Governor Jan Brewer Sociologists without …