{"id":41737,"date":"2015-07-11T20:50:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T20:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41737"},"modified":"2015-07-14T20:57:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T20:57:38","slug":"mestizo-and-mulatto-mixed-race-identities-among-u-s-hispanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41737","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mestizo\u2019 and \u2018mulatto\u2019: Mixed-race identities among U.S. Hispanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2015\/07\/10\/mestizo-and-mulatto-mixed-race-identities-unique-to-hispanics\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Mestizo\u2019 and \u2018mulatto\u2019: Mixed-race identities among U.S. Hispanics<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research Center<\/a><br \/>\n2015-07-10<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnaGonzalezB_MX\" target=\"_blank\">Ana Gonzalez-Barrera<\/a><\/strong>, Research Associate<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2015\/07\/10\/mestizo-and-mulatto-mixed-race-identities-unique-to-hispanics\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/files\/2015\/07\/FT_15.07.08_mestizo_200px.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For many Americans, the term \u201cmixed race\u201d brings to mind a biracial experience of having one parent black and another white, or perhaps one white and the other Asian.<\/p>\n<p>But for many U.S. Latinos, mixed-race identity takes on a different meaning \u2013 one that is tied to Latin America\u2019s colonial history and commonly includes having a white and indigenous, or \u201cmestizo,\u201d background somewhere in their ancestry.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if they identify as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mestizo\" target=\"_blank\">mestizo<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatto<\/a>\u201d or some other mixed-race combination, one-third of U.S. Hispanics say they do, according to a 2014 Pew Research Center <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewsocialtrends.org\/2015\/06\/11\/chapter-7-the-many-dimensions-of-hispanic-racial-identity\/#asking-hispanics-about-racial-identities-beyond-census-classifications\" target=\"_blank\">survey of Hispanic adults<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2015\/07\/10\/mestizo-and-mulatto-mixed-race-identities-unique-to-hispanics\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Mestizo\u2019 and \u2018mulatto\u2019: Mixed-race identities among U.S. Hispanics Pew Research Center 2015-07-10 Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, Research Associate For many Americans, the term \u201cmixed race\u201d brings to mind a biracial experience of having one parent black and another white, or perhaps one white and the other Asian. But for many U.S. Latinos, mixed-race identity takes on a [&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":[20260,3122],"class_list":["post-41737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-ana-gonzalez-barrera","tag-pew-research-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41737","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=41737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}