A record-breaking 46% of Americans have used the internet, email or cell phone text messaging to get news about the campaign, share their views and mobilize others. And Barack Obama’s backers have an edge in the online political environment.
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Winning Latino Votes in the General Election.
With the focus now squarely on the general election, the pressure intensifies to work those pieces of the demographic pie that could mean The White House. Among the tastier slices? U.S. Latino voters.
TRANSactions: Contemporary LatAM & Latino Art at the Weatherspoon Art Museum.
The Weatherspoon Art Museum presents TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, an exhibition that showcases the work of forty Latin American and Latino artists and demonstrates how, despite their differences, they commonly explore questions of identity through their own cultures and life experiences.
Impremedia partnership to publish Oscar de La Hoya biography.
Rayo and impreMedia have agreed to join forces to promote one of the most-talked about memoirs of the year, the much anticipated Oscar De La Hoya penned autobiography, Un Sueño Americano (on-sale June 10th).
Distinct Ethnic & Political Identity for Mexican Americans.
Mexican Americans identify with their ethnic culture, and ethnic identification remains strong across generations, according to a report released by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. The report — based on the study and book titled “Generations of Exclusions: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race” (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008) — concluded that ethnic assimilation among Mexican Americans is slow. The results, which are drawn from a longitudinal and intergenerational research study that updates “The Mexican American People” (1970), measured various markers of assimilation over a nearly 40-year time span.
