WHY A SECOND EDITION OF AUTÉNTICO?
Ensuring a Vibrant Latino Future
It was seemingly an era ago that our first edition of Auténtico was released in 2017. It was before the coronavirus blew everything to smithereens and before George Floyd’s murder ignited a massive racial reckoning.
These tectonic forces that affected all members of society had important particularities in how it affected Latinos in the U.S. Latinos, along with Blacks, ended up being three times more likely to contract the virus, and two times more likely to die of it compared to Whites.1 The economic implosion due to the pandemic also hit Latinos disproportionately. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Latino unemployment hit 10.3 percent (vs 7 percent for Whites) as ...
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