Divided or Together? Conflict and Cooperation between African Americans and Latinos

Miller

The American Review of Public Administration

et al. 2014

Previous research on interethnic competition has not examined public school jobs across the United States. We use U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission data to answer two research questions. What are the levels of under-and over-representation in various public school jobs among African Americans, Latinos, and White non-Latinos? And, is there interethnic competition for these positions? Answers to these questions have implications for resource distribution and the future of representational equity. Based on analysis of 267 multiethnic U.S. school districts for 2002 and 2008, we find that Latinos are underrepresented in all four job categories and that non-Latino Whites are overrepresented or achieve near-parity in all four categories. On average, Blacks are overrepresented among assistant principals and principals but underrepresented among classroom teachers and administrators. Competition between minorities and non-minorities is more prevalent than competition between Blacks and Latinos. Among districts in which we find competition between Blacks and Latinos, competition does not heavily favor one group over the other for assistant principal, principal, and administrator positions; however, among classroom teachers, districts with Latino gains and Black losses outnumber those with Black gains and Latino losses by greater than 2 to 1. In low Latino growth districts, Latinos outpace Blacks in competition for teacher positions, but in high Latino growth districts, Blacks outpace Latinos for administrator positions.

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Interethnic Competition for Classroom Teacher, Assistant Principal, Principal, and Administrator Jobs in Multiethnic U.S. School Districts, 2002-2008

Miller

The American Review of Public Administration

et al. 2014

Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics

“…A number of scholars have noted collaboration between Latinos and Asian-Americans (Fong 1994;Horton 1995;Saito 1998) and Latinos and African-Americans (Guinier and Torres 2002;Meier et al 2004 (CAPAC) began to formally work together for the first time.Their strategy was to form coalitions within Congress on votes of common interest but also to launch communication strategies to shape public opinion across American racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States. Eddie Bernice Johnson, the chair of the CBC during the 107th Congress, argued that African-American, Latino, and Asian-American members of Congress should work together: "We vote together now on issues that are very common to all of us.With increased dialogue, we might be together on other issues."…”

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confidence: 99%

Bridging the Divide

Grose

2006

Are minority press outlets more likely to provide coverage of minority legislators than white legislators? Does this coverage translate across racial and ethnic lines? This article assesses whether minority members of the 107th Congress are covered by minority media sources more than white legislators. The author examines the frequency of media coverage of Latino, African-American, and Asian-American legislators in the Latino press, the African-American press, and the Asian-American press.The author argues and finds that minority elected officials are more likely to receive coverage in newspapers geared specifically to minority communities. Minority legislators are more likely to be covered by minority media, and these results are robust across minority media.The author also finds that minority media are more likely to give coverage to legislators from other minority groups as well. African-American and Latino legislators receive more coverage from Latino media outlets than other legislators, while the same results are found for African-American media outlets. Asian-American media outlets are more likely to cover both Asian-American and African-American legislators.

American Politics Research

“…However, even though African American and Latino students both perform poorly on standardized tests compared with White students, Latinos may Lay, Stokes-Brown / Put to the Test 431 view high-stakes testing differently than African Americans. Latinos and African Americans often find themselves on opposing sides of policy debates, especially when competing for scarce resources (McClain, 1993;McClain & Kamig, 1990;Meier & Stewart, 1991b;Meier, McClain, Polinard & Wrinkle, 2004). For example, although Latinos are overwhelmingly supportive of bilingual education, African Americans and other native English speakers generally oppose it (Hajnal & Baldassare, 2001;Huddy & Sears, 1995;Lee, 1999;Uhlaner, 1991).…”

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confidence: 99%

Put to the Test

Lay

Stokes‐Brown

2008

Despite the importance of high-stakes tests in education policy, relatively little is known about opinion on this issue. We examine racial and socioeconomic differences in support for high-stakes testing. Given the achievement gaps between racial minorities and Whites and between the lower and higher status, it would be reasonable to expect that those whose children are most likely to do well on high-stakes tests would support the policy, whereas their counterparts would oppose them. However, these groups have different histories with and optimism about the public education system as well as different perceptions about how high-stakes tests will affect their children. We find that Latinos strongly support these measures, whereas African Americans and Whites oppose them primarily because African Americans are pessimistic about improving public schools and Whites are concerned about how resources will be redistributed. We also find that those of higher status are more likely to oppose high-stakes testing.