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Of all Americans who checked the box "Some Other Race", 97 percent were Hispanic. [82] These Hispanics make up 26,225,882 people or 42.2% of the Hispanic population. Over half of the "two or more races" respondents were Hispanics. [83] These Hispanics make up 20,299,960 people or 32.7% of the Hispanic population.
The term Hispanic has been the source of several debates in the United States. Within the United States, the term originally referred typically to the Hispanos of New Mexico until the U.S. government used it in the 1970 Census to refer to "a person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race."
“There is no Hispanic race. There is no Hispanic nation. There is no Hispanic DNA. So this is all a political construct, and that’s the reason I am against it.” Gonzalez described the ...
The legal scholar Tanya Katerí Hernández has written that anti-Black racism has a lengthy and often violent history within the Hispanic/Latino community. [3] According to Hernández, anti-Black racism is not an individual problem but rather a "systemic problem within Latinidad" and that myths exist within the community that "mestizaje" exempts Hispanics/Latinos from racism.
The terms Hispanic or Latino and Middle Eastern or North African will now be listed as a single race/ethnicity category in federal forms, reflecting the reality of how many Americans identify ...
The Biden administration is proposing major changes to how Americans identify on the census, including Hispanic or Latino as their race and checking multiple boxes.
The Monumento a La Raza at Avenida de los Insurgentes, Mexico City (inaugurated 12 October 1940) Flag of the Hispanic People. In Mexico, the Spanish expression la Raza [1] ('the people' [2] or 'the community'; [3] literal translation: 'the race' [2]) has historically been used to refer to the mixed-race populations (primarily though not always exclusively in the Western Hemisphere), [4 ...
Hispanic is a term that refers to people of Spanish speaking origin or ancestry. Think language-- so if someone is from Spanish speaking origin or ancestry, they can be described as Hispanic.