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Perceptions of ethnic jokes are ambivalent. Christie Davies gives examples that, while many find them racist and offensive, for some people jokes poking fun at one's own ethnicity may be considered acceptable. He points out that ethnic jokes are often found funny exactly for the same reason they sound racist for others; it happens when they ...
The legal scholar Tanya Katerí Hernández has written that anti-Black racism has a lengthy and often violent history within the Hispanic/Latino community. [3] According to Hernández, anti-Black racism is not an individual problem but rather a "systemic problem within Latinidad" and that myths exist within the community that "mestizaje" exempts Hispanics/Latinos from racism.
During the Spanish Inquisition, the descendants of Jews and Muslims were targeted the most. This policy was called Limpieza de sangre (Blood Cleansing). Even after a Jew or a Muslim (Muwallad, an Arab or a Berber) converted to Christianity, the contemporary Spanish authorities referred to them and their descendants as New Christians, and as a result, they were the targets of popular and ...
The book’s title is inspired by the 1920 W.E.B. Du Bois essay, “The Souls of White Folk,” which examined the roots of American racism. Author and sociologist Raúl Pérez has written a book ...
Ahead of Donald Trump’s appearance Tuesday in the heavily Latino city of Allentown, Pennsylvania, a comedian’s racist joke about Puerto Ricans at the former president’s Madison Square Garden ...
Six people were shot; three fatally in Annapolis, Maryland on June 11, 2023; the victims consisted of people of Mexican and Central American origin; the perpetrator is Caucasian, and has been charged with murder, attempted murder, and hate crime enhancements to each violence-related charge.
Hinchcliffe later responded on social media saying people like Walz and Ocasio-Cortez "have no sense of humor" and took his joke "out of context to make it seem racist." "I love Puerto Rico and ...
Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law (Spanish: Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley) [1] [n. 1] is a 1998 Spanish dark comedy film written and directed by Santiago Segura, who stars as José Luis Torrente, a racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and fascist former police agent. [2]