Nicholas Vargas

Contention, Cohesion, and Beyond: An Overview of Black‐Latinx Relations in the United States Past sociological research on Black-Latinx relations in the United States details experiences that often take one of two routes: contention or cohesion. In this paper, I overview frames that account ....

My new article in Sociology Compass is out — it reflects on how we’ve come to understand Black-Latinx relations in the U.S., the complexities that challenge coalition, and questions we still need to ask moving forward. Grateful if you checked it out here 👉🏽 doi.org/10.1111/soc4...

📣 “Unraveling Complexities of Latino Racialization” w/ @stephdhuman.bsky.social & @nicholasvargas.bsky.social in @annualreviews.bsky.social is officially out! get ur FREE copy
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Contributor: Californians insist — immigrants deserve a path to citizenship No matter where, when, to whom and how you ask the question, Golden State voters support giving immigrants without authorization a chance to become citizens.

Sharing an Op-Ed that Cristina Mora and I wrote in the @latimes.com. We collected 2 waves of poll data among CA voters over the past year, pre and post election. No matter how, when, or who we asked, we found overwhelming support for a path to citizenship. Pls share: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Latinos worry more than other U.S. adults about deportations About four-in-ten (42%) Hispanic adults say they worry that they or someone close to them could be deported.

NEW @pewresearch.org data: How deportation concerns vary by race/ethnicity

42% of Latino adults worry that, regardless of legal status, they or someone close to them could be deported. 19% of Black, 19% of Asian and 12% of White adults share that concern.

Take an early look at our new article at Annual Review of Sociology: “Unraveling Complexities of Latino Racialization.” Drawing from soc literature, we outline complexities that obscure conceptualizations of Latinxs. doi.org/10.1146/annu...

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As we fight tyranny, we build solidarity. From solidarity, we draw courage. Surrounded by courageous people and institutions, we more easily find courage within ourselves to keep fighting. Remember: tyranny is only possible if people submit to it.

A booming U.S. stock market doesn’t benefit all racial and ethnic groups equally Nearly two-thirds of White families (66%) owned stocks directly or indirectly, compared with 39% of Black families and 28% of Hispanic families.

"Overall, 58% of U.S. families had some sort of exposure to the stock market in 2022, the highest level ever recorded...The median value of those holdings was $52,000; the mean value was $489,500."

@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.

The Impact Map or Federal Cuts Tracker Map is finally live‼️

Check the 🗺️ out theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m...

Explore how federal cuts are affecting your state or community and share this WIDELY 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org

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The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.

Bernie Sanders: +10
Hakeem Jeffries: -3
Donald Trump: -7
Mike Johnson: -9
JD Vance: -11
Chuck Schumer: -15
Elon Musk -17

WFP/JRF, 2/24-3/2

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We gave a short survey to White Christians & asked them to pick between our govt prioritizing economic prosperity with more immigrants or reducing immigration even if it hurts prosperity.

Majorities of White Christian nationalists would tank our economy if it meant preserving the ethnic status quo.

"A Columbia senior administrator said the school considered legal options ...but ... the ... government has so many available levers to claw back money, it would be a difficult fight. Additionally the school believed there was considerable overlap between needed campus changes and Trump’s demands."

Two-panel graph analyzing U.S. House Elections from 2006-2024. Left panel shows Democratic vote share increases as turnout gap with Republicans narrows, with a positive trend line (46-56% on y-axis). Right panel shows Democratic vote share decreases as party positioning moves from liberal to conservative, with a negative trend line. Election years are plotted as dots, with blue dots (2006, 2008, 2018) indicating Democratic House majorities and red dots indicating Republican majorities. Both graphs demonstrate that Democrats perform better with higher turnout and more liberal positioning.

1/🧵 Following up on our study featured in NYT today, this figure provides a macro-level view:

Dem vote shares rise with turnout parity (left) but fall with party-level ideological moderation (right). This suggests mobilizing base voters > persuading swing voters by moving to the center.

I just heard this as well. The entire staff of the National Center for Education Statistics, created in 1867, has been fired.

A researcher just lost their grant funding because their work might help understand why people are hesitant about vaccines.

Of course, we’d love to see these numbers decrease as much as possible. But comparing raw numbers over time dramatically distorts the risk/safety. There are 100 million more people living in the U.S. today compared to 1968.

Just received word that the Census National Advisory Committee has been terminated.

I don’t want to add to the doomscrolling. Still, I am pissed that in addition to having to endure this era, younger generations may be forced to spend decades (if not centuries) debating its true impacts with bad faith actors in their efforts to produce a fuller humanity.

Good news about the fight against illegal DEI bans from the AAUP!

The “US District Court for the District of Maryland granted a preliminary nationwide injunction on key parts of a pair of executive orders issued by President Trump..”

www.aaup.org/news/win-aau...

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.”

I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

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Critical Sociology compiled Michael Burawoy's articles and allowed free access.
I hope other journals will do the same.
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JUST IN:

Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

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Resharing one tool that can help with some of those conversations:
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

NEW: Census Bureau's website no longer show bios of its advisory committee members, as of 7:28 pm ET Friday
- #2030Census Advisory Committee www.census.gov/about/cac/20...
-Census Scientific Advisory Committee www.census.gov/about/cac/sa...
-National Advisory Committee www.census.gov/about/cac/na...

Florida board approves extensive gen ed overhaul The Florida Board of Governors voted to remove hundreds of classes, many touching on race and gender, from general education offerings at all 12 state universities.

There's a far-right coup d'état against higher education going on in Florida

www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...