{"id":42941,"date":"2015-09-27T18:11:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T18:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42941"},"modified":"2015-09-27T18:11:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T18:11:01","slug":"the-term-hispanic-is-a-u-s-invention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42941","title":{"rendered":"The term [Hispanic] is a U.S. invention&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/07\/24\/AR2009072402091.html\" target=\"_blank\">established the word \u201cHispanic\u201d<\/a> to denote anyone with ancestry traced to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spain\" target=\"_blank\">Spain<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latin_America\" target=\"_blank\">Latin America<\/a>, and mandated the collection of data on this group. <strong>\u201cThe term is a U.S. invention,\u201d<\/strong> explains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/experts\/mark-hugo-lopez\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Hugo Lopez<\/a>, associate director of the Pew Hispanic Center. \u201cIf you go to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/El_Salvador\" target=\"_blank\">El Salvador<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominican_Republic\" target=\"_blank\">Dominican Republic<\/a>, you won\u2019t necessarily hear people say they are \u2018Latino\u2019 or \u2018Hispanic.\u2019<strong>\u2009<\/strong>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Carlos Lozada, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=31874\" target=\"_blank\">Who is Latino?<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, June 21, 2013. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/who-is-latino\/2013\/06\/21\/bcd6f71a-d6a4-11e2-b05f-3ea3f0e7bb5a_story_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/who-is-latino\/2013\/06\/21\/bcd6f71a-d6a4-11e2-b05f-3ea3f0e7bb5a_story_1.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cHispanic\u201d to denote anyone with ancestry traced to Spain or Latin [&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":[14992,14994,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-42941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-carlos-lozada","tag-mark-hugo-lopez","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42941","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=42941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42942,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42941\/revisions\/42942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}