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Afro-Latin Americans or Black Latin Americans [30] (sometimes Afro-Latinos [a] [34]) are Latin Americans of sub-Saharan African ancestry. [35] [36] [37] The term Afro-Latin American is not widely used in Latin America outside academic circles. Normally Afro-Latin Americans are called Black (Spanish: negro or moreno; Portuguese: negro or preto ...
Black Hispanic and Latino Americans, also called Afro-Hispanics, [3] Afro-Latinos, [4] Black Hispanics, or Black Latinos, [3] are classified by the United States Census Bureau, Office of Management and Budget, and other U.S. government agencies [5] as Black people living in the United States with ancestry in Latin America or Spain and/or who speak Spanish and/or Portuguese as either their ...
Most countries in Latin America acknowledge African Latinos in their census; however they are often discriminated against and are not granted social and political equality. Only until recently, 15 million African descendants were recognized in Latin America. Biological identity is a major factor in defining AfroLatinidad and their social status ...
(Pintura de castas, c. 1780), unknown author, Mexico De negro é india sale lobo "from black man and Indian woman comes 'wolf' ." (Pintura de castas, c. 1780), unknown author, Mexico. There is no single system of races or ethnicities that covers all modern Latin America, and usage of labels may vary substantially.
Black in Latin America is a documentary television series that aired on PBS on April 19, 2011, in the United States. [1] [2] The series is based on the 2011 book Black in Latin America by Henry Louis Gates Jr., who produced the four-episode series. Both the documentary and book explore the historical roots and influence of Afro-Latin Americans.
Hispanus was the Latin name given to a person from Hispania during Roman rule.The ancient Roman Hispania, which roughly comprised what is currently called the Iberian Peninsula, included the contemporary states of Spain, Portugal, and Andorra, and the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar but excluding the Spanish and Portuguese overseas territories of Canary Islands, Ceuta, Melilla, Açores ...
The Pew Research Center believes that the term Hispanic is strictly limited to Spain, Puerto Rico, and all countries where Spanish is the only official language whereas "Latino" includes all countries in Latin America (even Brazil regardless of the fact that Portuguese is its only official language), but it does not include Spain and Portugal. [3]
In Latin America there is more flexibility in how people racially categorize themselves. In the Dominican Republic a person who has some degree of black ancestry can identify as non-black if appearance wise they can pass of as being another racial category or is racially ambiguous. [citation needed]