{"id":32133,"date":"2013-07-07T00:49:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T00:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32133"},"modified":"2013-07-07T00:49:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T00:49:35","slug":"redefining-la-raza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32133","title":{"rendered":"Redefining la raza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscatholic.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/redefining-la-raza\" target=\"_blank\">Redefining la raza<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscatholic.org\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Catholic<\/a><br \/>\n2011-07-06<\/p>\n<p><strong>Father Tom Joyce, CMF<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There use to be an unspoken pattern to Hispanic migration to the United States: Mexicans drifted to Los Angeles or South Texas, Puerto Ricans\u2014soon followed by Dominicans\u2014to New York City. Cubans stayed in Miami for a quick return to Havana that never came. Mexicans and Puerto Ricans shared Chicago\u2014Mexicans on the Southwest side and Puerto Ricans on the Northwest. Over the years Central Americans drifted into Florida and the nation\u2019s capital, and Mexicans followed meatpacking into the plains states.<\/p>\n<p>The recent plague of xenophobic nastiness in state laws aren\u2019t confined to Arizona and Utah, who have long known Hispanics, but are now popping up in Georgia, Indiana, and Alabama. The latest census confirms the spread of the 50 million-plus Latino population across the entire nation. Our largest minority, they are now on the way to being the majority in the latter part of the 21st century, according to projections.<\/p>\n<p>But a funny thing is happening on the way to that majority: It\u2019s getting more diverse every day. <strong>The most recent census gave respondents more choice when selecting their racial identity\u2014mostly to accommodate the growing number of mixed race individuals. We have long had black Hispanics\u2014look at any major league baseball team\u2014and they have usually identified as Hispanics first.<\/strong> They are unmindful of color or that racial prejudice has a long nasty history in their homelands.<\/p>\n<p>The result of the 2010 census of New York City has added another twist to those identifying as Latino or Hispanic. Out of the 57,000 who identified themselves as American Indian in New York City, 40,000 were Latino from Mexico; the rest were from Latin America. Even families long established in the United States check American Indian and Hispanic on their census forms&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscatholic.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/redefining-la-raza\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redefining la raza U.S. Catholic 2011-07-06 Father Tom Joyce, CMF There use to be an unspoken pattern to Hispanic migration to the United States: Mexicans drifted to Los Angeles or South Texas, Puerto Ricans\u2014soon followed by Dominicans\u2014to New York City. Cubans stayed in Miami for a quick return to Havana that never came. Mexicans and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,14646,8,20],"tags":[15112,15111],"class_list":["post-32133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-father-tom-joyce","tag-u-s-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}