{"id":45866,"date":"2016-03-01T21:23:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T21:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45866"},"modified":"2016-03-01T21:23:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T21:23:33","slug":"afro-latino-a-deeply-rooted-identity-among-u-s-hispanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45866","title":{"rendered":"Afro-Latino: A deeply rooted identity among U.S. Hispanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2016\/03\/01\/afro-latino-a-deeply-rooted-identity-among-u-s-hispanics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Afro-Latino: A deeply rooted identity among U.S. Hispanics<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research Center<\/a><br \/>\nWashington, D.C.<br \/>\n2016-03-01<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/glopezoroz\" target=\"_blank\">Gustavo L\u00f3pez<\/a><\/strong>, Research Assistant<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnaGonzalezB_MX\" target=\"_blank\">Ana Gonzalez-Barrera<\/a><\/strong>, Research Associate<\/p>\n<p>Identity for U.S. Hispanics is multidimensional and multifaceted. For example, many Hispanics tie their identity to their ancestral countries of origin \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cuba\" target=\"_blank\">Cuba<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peru\" target=\"_blank\">Peru<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominican_Republic\" target=\"_blank\">Dominican Republic<\/a>. They may also look to their indigenous roots. Among the many ways Hispanics see their identity is their racial background.<\/p>\n<p>Afro-Latinos are one of these Latino identity groups. They are characterized by their diverse views of racial identity, reflecting the complex and varied nature of race and identity among Latinos. A Pew Research Center survey of Latino adults shows that one-quarter of all U.S. Latinos self-identify as Afro-Latino, Afro-Caribbean or of African descent with roots in Latin America. This is the first time a nationally representative survey in the U.S. has asked the Latino population directly whether they considered themselves Afro-Latino&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2016\/03\/01\/afro-latino-a-deeply-rooted-identity-among-u-s-hispanics\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afro-Latino: A deeply rooted identity among U.S. Hispanics Pew Research Center Washington, D.C. 2016-03-01 Gustavo L\u00f3pez, Research Assistant Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, Research Associate Identity for U.S. Hispanics is multidimensional and multifaceted. For example, many Hispanics tie their identity to their ancestral countries of origin \u2013 Mexico, Cuba, Peru or the Dominican Republic. They may also look [&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":[20260,23116,3122],"class_list":["post-45866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-ana-gonzalez-barrera","tag-gustavo-lopez","tag-pew-research-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45866","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=45866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45867,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45866\/revisions\/45867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}