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Podcast: New Books in Law
Episode: Michael RodrĂguez-Muñiz, "Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Description: Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change (Princeton UP, 2021) examines the âcontemporary population politics of national Latino civil rights advocacy.â The book challenges readers to generally understand democratic projections as problematic, political, and manufactured -- and specifically consider the case of how prominent Latino civil rights groups used such projections during the Obama and Trump administrations to âaccelerate the when of Latino political power.â Groups like UnidosUS, the League of United Latin American Citizens, and Voto Latino believed that they could mobilize demographic data about the growing Latino population to increase political recognition and respect -- hopin...