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  • Web Event: The great demographic illusion: Majority, minority, and the expanding American mainstream

    Please join AEI for a panel discussion, moderated by AEI’s Karlyn Bowman, on mixed-race families, US Census definitions, Hispanic identity across generations, personal definitions of race, and the implications for American politics.

  • Who is Hispanic?

    So, who is considered Hispanic in the United States? And how are they counted in public opinion surveys, voter exit polls and government surveys like the upcoming 2020 census?

  • Hispanic Identity Fades Across Generations as Immigrant Connections Fall Away

    11% of American adults with Hispanic ancestry do not identify as Hispanic

  • The term [Hispanic] is a U.S. invention…

    If all ethnic identities are created, imagined or negotiated to some degree, American Hispanics provide an especially stark example. As part of an effort in the 1970s to better measure who was using what kind of social services, the federal government established the word “Hispanic” to denote anyone with ancestry traced to Spain or Latin…

  • Is being Hispanic a matter of race, ethnicity or both?

    Is being Hispanic a matter of race, ethnicity or both? Pew Research Center 2015-06-15 Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, Research Associate Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research When it comes to reporting their racial identity, Latinos stand out from other Americans. In the 2010 census, for example, 94% of the U.S. population selected at least one of…

  • How Fluid Is Racial Identity?

    How Fluid Is Racial Identity? Room for Debate The New York Times 2015-06-17 Heidi W. Durrow, Novelist Amanda Kay Erekson, President MAVIN Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law University of Iowa Nancy Leong, Associate Professor of Law University of Denver Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research Pew Research Center…

  • Multiracial in America

    Multiracial in America Pew Research Center Washington, D.C. 2015-06-11 155 pages Principal Researchers Kim Parker, Director of Social Trends Research Rich Morin, Senior Editor Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Associate Director, Research Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research Research Team Anna Brown, Research Assistant D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer Richard Fry, Senior Researcher Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, Research Associate…

  • How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America

    How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America The Diane Rehm Show WAMU 88.5 FM Washington, D.C. 2015-01-05 Diane Rehm, Host Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research Pew Research Center Jim Tankersley, Economic Policy Correspondent The Washington Post William Frey, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program (author of Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America)…

  • ‘Mexican,’ ‘Hispanic,’ ‘Latin American’ top list of race write-ins on the 2010 census

    ‘Mexican,’ ‘Hispanic,’ ‘Latin American’ top list of race write-ins on the 2010 census Pew Research Center 2014-04-04 Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research Jens Manuel Krogstad, Writer/Editor Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends Project What is your race? The U.S. Census Bureau asks this question of every U.S. household, but the menu of options offered…

  • Who is Latino?

    Who is Latino? The Washington Post 2013-06-21 Carlos Lozada, Editor of Outlook, The Washington Post’s Sunday section for opinion, analysis ‘Shut up, you stupid Mexican!” The words spewed from the mouth of a pale, freckle-faced boy, taunting me on our elementary school playground. I wish I could recall what I said to inspire the insult.…