[1][2] Latinos and other racial/ethnic groups are challenging the ways in which politicians, academics and other cultural influencers consider and discuss race by upending this country's black/white racial binary paradigm.
In 2002, Rodriguez founded City Projects, a production company whose films and educational programs challenge ideas about race and diversity in America.
Latinos '08 received several reviews, including in the Washington Post,[4] the New York Times,[5] and the San Diego Union Tribune,[6] and a 2009 CINE Golden Eagle Award for Best News Analysis.
Yet credit the higher truth-telling of this brisk, brief (one-hour) political, demographic and cultural tour that it also resists taking refuge in easy contrarianism, which is as overly simple as the conventional wisdom.
[8]The San Diego-Union Tribune: One thing [Latinos '08] makes clear is that this subject is much more nuanced and complicated than many people imagine.