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Nicholas Vargas

@nicholasvargas.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Latinx Studies at UC Berkeley. Sociological lens. Research interests in Latinx racialization, classification, and education.

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Stephanie A. Dhuman @stephdhuman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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...
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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 ....
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Ariana J. Valle @ajvalle213.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
📣 “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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Unraveling Complexities of Latino Racialization | Annual Reviews
In this review, we advocate for deeper exploration of Latino racialization by highlighting three core complexities: complexities of racial categorization, state-based racialization, and within-group v...
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Nicholas Vargas @nicholasvargas.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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...
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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.
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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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.
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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.
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Nicholas Vargas @nicholasvargas.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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... @ajvalle213.bsky.social @stephdhuman.bsky.social
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Unraveling Complexities of Latino Racialization | Annual Reviews
In this review, we advocate for deeper exploration of Latino racialization by highlighting three core complexities: complexities of racial categorization, state-based racialization, and within-group v...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Banned words from the USDA 

A leaked memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Service division revealed Sunday that the agency has banned some key language from its vocabulary, including the words “climate” and “vulnerable,” as well as the phrase “safe drinking water.”Banned words from the USDA 

Other baffling entries on the memo’s banned language list are “greenhouse gas emissions,” “methane emissions,” “sustainable construction,” “solar energy,” and “geothermal,” as well as “nuclear energy,” “diesel,” “affordable housing,” “prefabricated housing,” “runoff,” “microplastics,” “water pollution,” “soil pollution,” “groundwater pollution,” “sediment remediation,” “water collection,” “water treatment,” “rural water,” and “clean water,” among dozens of others
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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
"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."
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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.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.
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Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D. @estebanjq.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Screenshot of Impact Map or Federal Cuts Tracker Map
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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 a 🧵
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.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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 drive.google.com/file/d/1psge...
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250312_Current Events Messaging_Survey_Toplines.pdf
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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.
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
"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."
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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.
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.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 12/03/2025
I just heard this as well. The entire staff of the National Center for Education Statistics, created in 1867, has been fired.
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A researcher just lost their grant funding because their work might help understand why people are hesitant about vaccines.
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Nicholas Vargas @nicholasvargas.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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.
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Nicholas Vargas @nicholasvargas.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Just received word that the Census National Advisory Committee has been terminated.
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Nicholas Vargas @nicholasvargas.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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.
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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...
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A Win for the AAUP, Higher Ed, and Our Communities
Last night, in a case in which the AAUP was a plaintiff, the US District Court for the District of Maryland granted a preliminary nationwide injunction on key parts of a pair of executive orders issue...
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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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Cihan Tugal @cihantugal.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Critical Sociology compiled Michael Burawoy's articles and allowed free access. I hope other journals will do the same. journals.sagepub.com/page/crs/vir...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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...
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
💯 Resharing one tool that can help with some of those conversations: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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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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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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...
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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
There's a far-right coup d'état against higher education going on in Florida www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
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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.
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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Restraining order is out. #academicsky #healthsky #census #data #omb
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I'm keeping a running list of disappearing federal data in the 🧵 below. If there are others I missed let me know. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal username crampell.13
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Nicholas Vargas @nicholasvargas.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Why would a proud and confident government purge their own data?
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 28/12/2024
This is the last photo of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, walking toward Israeli tanks before being detained by Israeli forces after they destroyed the last hospital in northern Gaza. His current condition is unknown.
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Nicholas Vargas @nicholasvargas.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Don’t forget to leave out some coquito for Santa. Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!
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John V. Kane @uptonorwell.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
📊Ever use or teach interactions in regression? I’ve been using/teaching this tricky concept for years & finally decided to write a guide. Link below; no paywall👍 Meant for users of any software but @statacorp.bsky.social code is provided 😁 CC: @asjadnaqvi.bsky.social medium.com/the-stata-ga...
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Abigail Andrews @abigailandrews.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Elated to share that the dream team @stephcanizales.bsky.social, @drmirianma.bsky.social, Silvia Rodriguez Vega and I are getting ~$1.6 million from UCOP MRPI for our project Reimagining Refuge: California for Just Migrant Futures. Stay tuned for seed grants to CA scholars, artists, and activists!
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 30/11/2024
Ok: 1 like = 1 demographic fact* * may include estimates, generalizations, dataviz, or unsubstantiated claims
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Michael Itzkowitz @mitzkow.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
Today, we released a report with College Futures. "California College Programs That Pay: Measuring Return on Investment Across Majors and Credentials," evaluates the ROI of fields of study within higher education institutions. www.theheagroup.com/blog/college...
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California College Programs That Pay — The HEA Group
In this report, we take a closer look at individual college programs and the time it takes graduates to recoup their educational costs after earning their credential within specific fields of study. T...
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Michael Itzkowitz @mitzkow.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Want to become a teacher, but think you simply can't afford to do so? The HEA Group's latest report with College Futures shows the costs—and earnings—associated with each degree program within the state. Take a look and explore the data yourself 👉 www.theheagroup.com/blog/college...
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Yep. This is the example I always use “A Gallup poll from 1966 found that 66 percent of Americans had an unfavorable view of Martin Luther King, Jr.”
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MLK Was Not Always A Popular Man
"He was not searching for popularity," Clayborne Carson, director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Institute at Stanford, said.
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Nicholas Vargas @nicholasvargas.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The comparison between Dec. 2016 and Nov 2024 is....something.
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Mahesh Somashekhar @msoma.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
With these policies, right-wing authoritarians and Stalin have something in common: Under Stalinist Russia, sociology was driven underground. Since I'm a professional sociologist, that's not speculation. That's fact. Here's a citation: (Burawoy 2005:21). www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...
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Florida Tries a Subtler Way to Curb Progressive Ideology: Cut Sociology
Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing subjects like sociology from core requirements.
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Nicholas Vargas @nicholasvargas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Listening to an incredible book talk by @monijimenez.bsky.social Can’t wait to read it, cite it, and assign it. ‘Making Never Never-Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico’ uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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Making Never-Never Land | Mónica A. Jiménez | University of North Carolina Press
Puerto Rico has been an "unincorporated territory" of the United States for over a century. For much of that time, the archipelago has been mostly invisible ...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Disturbing prediction from @pkrugman.bsky.social: If Trump's deportations really happen, inflation will spike, then MAGA loyalists will corrupt government info to mask it. For autocrats, he says, "among their first targets are statistical agencies." Our exchange: newrepublic.com/article/1883...
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Nicholas Vargas @nicholasvargas.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
New platform—so, a reminder that only 3 percent of four-year colleges offer a Latino Studies (LS) major. And research shows that LS has vast academic benefits for under-represented students beyond the major. We should continue to build, especially when challenged. link.springer.com/article/10.1....
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How many Latino studies programs are there? Tracking departmental growth, stagnation, and invisibility 1960–2020 - Latino Studies
This study provides the first systematic analysis of the founding and growth of Latino studies programs across the country. Drawing on a unique data set compiled from the National Center for Education...
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Carlos Odio @carlosodio.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Huge new resource for anyone who ever needs to pull Latino census estimates (there are filters for eligible & reg voters) latinodatahub.org
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Nicholas Vargas @nicholasvargas.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Blue skies smiling at me. Nothing but blue skies do I see.
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a blue sky with white clouds that look like angels
ALT: a blue sky with white clouds that look like angels
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