Dr. Belem López and Dr. Rachel González-Martin discuss how racist language can go unnoticed in Latinx families. Drawing on their own lives, they will share experiences of colorism and racist dichos (traditional sayings) from their childhoods spent in Texas and California. Belem LópezDr. López received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Texas A&M University in […]

The mass consumption of particular kinds of Latinx popular culture can play a role in the erasure of blackness and perpetuate a sentiment of anti-blackness in Latinx communities. How can we reverse the top-down movement of culture, which begins with cultural industries and trickles down to the consumers, and instead create cultural flow from below […]