publications

2026

1. NYU Press

   Politics in Our Veins: The Rise of Dominican American Political Power in the United States

   Yalidy Matos, Domingo Morel, and Michelle Bueno Vásquez

   2026

2022

1. JREP

   

   Seeing Us in Them: Social Divisions and the Politics of Group Empathy By Cigdem V. Sirin, Nicholas Valentino and Jose Villalobos. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021

   Michelle Bueno Vásquez

   Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, 2022

   Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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2. The Monkey Cage

   

   Afro-Latino politicians could bridge the African American-Latino divide

   Michelle Bueno Vásquez, Yalidy Matos, and Domingo Morel

   Washington Post, Oct 2022

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   In the U.S., Dominicans are the Hispanic group with the largest Black population. Many are pressured to identify as either Black or Latino, not both.

3. The Monkey Cage

   

   How the U.S. census ignores Afro-Latinos

   Michelle Alexandra Bueno Vásquez

   Washington Post, Jun 2022

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   Afro-Latinos are the most vulnerable to discrimination, but their official invisibility makes them harder to serve.