The Trouble with Unity

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  • Enjoyed an hourlong chat about Cruelty as Citizenship with Carroll University professor Lilly J. Goren for the New Books Network podcast series!  

  • For NYU's Latinx Project, I got to talk with the brilliant Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz about his new book, Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change. One of the upsides of Zoom life is the ability to make connections otherwise reliant on our ability to travel!  

  • Good to be back on MSNBC with the great Ali Velshi—technical glitches wrecked my first appear-from-home attempt some months back. Everything went much more smoothly this time, and Professor Christina Greer and I managed to say a few provocative things about Georgia's efforts to disenfranchise Democrats. Check out the clip.  

  • Had the opportunity to chat about the issues in Cruelty as Citizenship with radio host Sonali Kolhatkar for her provocative show Rising Up with Sonali. A terrific talk.

  • In the wake of the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, and seeing FBI wanted posters featuring the occasional nonwhite rioter, I wrote an op-ed-length essay on multiracial whiteness, an idea I've been mulling over for some time, and sent it to the Washington Post, which not only accepted it but ran it in…

  • UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies invited me to join Harvard professor Theda Skocpol and the Lincoln Project's Steve Schmidt for a post-election Zoom chat.  

  • In the aftermath of the election, the Guardian asked me and several colleagues for a few thoughts on Latino voters. Check out the article here.

  • Great to talk with Natasha Iskander about Cruelty as Citizenship for NYU's Latinx Project! A terrific conversation.

  • Had the pleasure of a long in-person interview with Mark Leviton of The Sun in June 2019, and the result is finally in print! Headlined, "Many Voices: Cristina Beltrán on What Unites and Divides Latinos," it's the lead article in the magazine's October 2020 issue. Was tickled to see copies on the newsstand at the…

  • As a UC Santa Cruz alum, was an honor to join professors Dean Mathiowetz, Deborah Gould, and Chris Benner for a Zoom chat on "Hope, Fear, and Desire for Democracy on the Eve of an Election." A lively conversation with no major technical glitches—check it out!