{"id":41237,"date":"2015-05-27T01:59:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T01:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41237"},"modified":"2015-05-27T01:59:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T01:59:17","slug":"the-invention-of-hispanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41237","title":{"rendered":"The Invention of Hispanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/latinousa.org\/2015\/05\/22\/the-invention-of-hispanics\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Invention of Hispanics<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latinousa.org\" target=\"_blank\">Latino USA<\/a><br \/>\n2015-05-22<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hosts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marloniousthunk\" target=\"_blank\">Marlon Bishop<\/a><\/strong>, Producer<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Caava\" target=\"_blank\">Camilo Vargas<\/a><\/strong>, Producer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guest:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.berkeley.edu\/faculty\/g-cristina-mora\" target=\"_blank\">G. Cristina Mor<\/a>a<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Berkeley<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/206725754&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Before 1970, the US Census Bureau classified Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rican immigrants as whites. Each community of Latin American origin would go by their nationality and by the region where they lived in the United States. But all that changed in the seventies, as activists began lobbying the US Census Bureau to create a broad, national category that included all these communities. The result was the creation of the term \u201cHispanic\u201d, first introduced in the US Census in 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Then it was up to Spanish-language media to get the word out. The network that would later become <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Univision\" target=\"_blank\">Univision<\/a> released this series of ads calling on \u201cHispanics\u201d to fill out the 1980 Census. The ads feature \u201cHispanic\u201d sports stars and\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_Bird\" target=\"_blank\">Big Bird<\/a>:&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/viyPQ1WnrFc?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By the 1990s, Univision was creating the images and sounds associated to Hispanics in the US. The 1990 Census ads feature the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tito_Puente\" target=\"_blank\">Tito Puente<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Celia_Cruz\" target=\"_blank\">Celia Cruz<\/a> telling Hispanics to fill out <em>el censo<\/em>:&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the preview <a href=\"http:\/\/latinousa.org\/2015\/05\/22\/the-invention-of-hispanics\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Listen to the story <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/latinousa\/the-invention-of-hispanics-2\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Invention of Hispanics Latino USA 2015-05-22 Hosts: Marlon Bishop, Producer Camilo Vargas, Producer Guest: G. Cristina Mora, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley Before 1970, the US Census Bureau classified Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rican immigrants as whites. Each community of Latin American origin would go by their nationality and by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,33,14646,8,394,20],"tags":[20118,17154,19226,19224],"class_list":["post-41237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-camilo-vargas","tag-g-cristina-mora","tag-latino-usa","tag-marlon-bishop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41237","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=41237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}