Rachel Kaufman, freelance reporter

I'm an interrogator of gargoyle lovers, frog fondlers, and the eternal optimists saving the news industry. These are some of the stories I've written.

Posts Tagged ‘Sunset Park’

Ethnic and racial labels

By • Apr 24th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

Having just finished writing a major project about a predominantly Spanish-speaking neighborhood in Brooklyn, I figured that now was the time to finally figure out the proper label for immigrants from Central and South America.*  I remembered learning something about how “Hispanic” was a term created not so long ago, not a term preferred by the [...]