{"id":36518,"date":"2014-05-26T06:48:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T06:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36518"},"modified":"2014-05-26T06:48:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T06:48:49","slug":"the-words-latino-and-hispanic-do-not-refer-to-a-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36518","title":{"rendered":"The words \u201cLatino\u201d and \u201cHispanic\u201d do not refer to a race&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The words \u201cLatino\u201d and \u201cHispanic\u201d do not refer to a race\u2014they refer to a multiracial ethnicity composed primarily of indigenous, European and African peoples and, most commonly, people of mixed race. In Latin America, there\u2019s lots of different ways to describe people of mixed race\u2014mestizo (mixed European and indigenous heritage) and mulato (mixed European and African heritage) being the most common.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Roque Planas, \u201cThe Census Can&#8217;t Fit Latinos Into A Race Box And It&#8217;s Causing More Confusion,\u201d <em>The Huffington Post<\/em> (May 22, 2014). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/05\/22\/census-latinos-some-other_n_5375832.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/05\/22\/census-latinos-some-other_n_5375832.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The words \u201cLatino\u201d and \u201cHispanic\u201d do not refer to a race\u2014they refer to a multiracial ethnicity composed primarily of indigenous, European and African peoples and, most commonly, people of mixed race. In Latin America, there\u2019s lots of different ways to describe people of mixed race\u2014mestizo (mixed European and indigenous heritage) and mulato (mixed European 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":[3],"tags":[17388,2425],"class_list":["post-36518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-httpwww-huffingtonpost-com20140522census-latinos-some-other_n_5375832-html","tag-the-huffington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36518","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=36518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}