Please notice that different issues might well fit into different topic areas, depending on how you choose to approach the issue and what aspects of it you choose to emphasize. Please notice also that every topic listed below includes issues that are international or global in scope, as well as issues that can be limited to the USA context. Your group will need to decide how to frame the issue that interests you: in international or in domestic terms. Finally, please note that the examples provided above are only that: examples. They are in no way to be taken as a complete list of what you might choose to focus on; they are merely a starting point from which you are encouraged to generate your own projects.
Work and Poverty
migrant/farm labor
job discrimination
sweatshop labor
Latina/os in the Welfare
System
Housing/segregation
under-representation of
Latina/os in professions
under-representation of
Latina/os in arts
Education
unequal access to quality
education
Latina/o drop-out rates in
High School
under-representation of
Latina/os in higher education (university)
military recruiting in schools
Violence
gang-violence
police harassment
Latina/os in the
prison/industrial complex
domestic violence
Sexuality and the Body
Sexism in Latina/o community
homophobia in Latina/o community
Health
unequal access to health
care (insurance, mental health, etc)
reproductive rights
AIDS in Latina/o community
Environment
environmental racism
Immigration
immigration and naturalization law
immigrant rights
forced deportation