News Analysis - Angle Video Reopens Topic of Race - NYTimes.com

News Analysis - Angle Video Reopens Topic of Race - NYTimes.com

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, a professor of sociology at Duke, said the ad and Ms. Angle’s comments about it reflected the country’s new “racial terrain.”

“I think the new boogeyman is Latino,” Professor Bonilla-Silva said.

Still, Ms. Angle “managed to offend two communities at once: Asians and Latinos,” he said. “Her statements come across as patronizing, and hark back to an old racist tradition where we all look the same.”