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New website debunks COVID-19 vaccine myths and urges hesitant Latinos to get the shot Daniel Gonzalez, Arizona Republic
When Arizona State University professor Gilberto Lopez and colleagues surveyed 600 Latinos in Arizona and California, they found that those in rural areas were more likely to be hesitant to get vaccinated against COVID-19 than those in suburban and urban areas.
The survey found that Latinos hesitant to get the vaccine were more likely to believe certain myths about COVID-19 vaccines, above all that getting vaccinated can cause infertility.
The findings troubled Lopez, who studies health inequities and disparities at ASU s School of Transborder Studies.
Why do words matter? A conversation with communities of color about the importance of words
As a way to be a more inclusive community, we have created a space to start a conversation about the impact certain words can have in someone s life. We invited members of our Asian, Latino, Black, and LGBTQ communities to this conversation.
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ABC15 has been reporting on the importance of words and how discrimination can occur against communities of color when using certain words.
As a way to be a more inclusive community, we have created a space to start a conversation about the impact certain words can have in someone s life. We invited members of our Asian, Latino, Black, and LGBTQ communities to this conversation.
At the new large-scale vaccination site at State Farm Stadium in Glendale on Monday, Arizona officials performed vaccinations on a group of educators and law enforcement, members of the new 1B vaccination eligibility phase. The site will open at midnight July 12 and run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, by appointment.
Earning his doctorate from Purdue University’s Program in American Studies, Lee Bebout is a professor of English at ASU, where he is affiliate faculty with the School of Transborder Studies and the Program in American Studies. His articles have appeared in Aztlán, MELUS, Latino Studies, and other scholarly journals. His book, Mythohistorical Interventions: The Chicano Movement and Its Legacies (Minnesota 2011), examines how narratives of myth and history were deployed to articulate political identity in the Chicano movement and postmovement era. His second book, Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the US Racial Imagination in Brown and White (NYU 2016), examines how representations of Mexico, Mexicans, and Mexican Americans have been used to foster whiteness and Americanness, or more accurately whiteness as Americanness.