{"id":48860,"date":"2016-08-26T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48860"},"modified":"2016-08-26T00:00:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T00:00:28","slug":"mtv-decoded-answers-the-question-are-hispanic-people-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48860","title":{"rendered":"MTV Decoded Answers The Question \u2018Are Hispanic People White?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/mtv-decoded-answers-the-question-are-hispanic-people-white_us_57bf4aa4e4b085c1ff287727\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>MTV Decoded Answers The Question \u2018Are Hispanic People White?\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/section\/latino-voices\" target=\"_blank\">Latino Voices<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2016-08-25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaritoJuliette\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Carolina Moreno<\/strong><\/a>, Editor<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aosT6Kecj24?list=PLnvZ3PbKApGM-hHuQ9lNc5oSKsusjn0Z6\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s complicated.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to matters of race and ethnicity, things can get very complicated. Thankfully, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.franchesca.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Franchesa Ramsey<\/a> is always ready to decode everything.<\/p>\n<p>In a new episode of <em>MTV News<\/em>, the host of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/shows\/decoded\" target=\"_blank\">Decoded<\/a>\u201d tackled the question \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/full-episodes\/355awa\/decoded-decoded-402-episode-season-4-ep-402\" target=\"_blank\">Are Hispanics white?<\/a>\u201d The answer is, unsurprisingly, complex.<\/p>\n<p>As an ethnicity, there\u2019s a <a href=\"http:\/\/testkitchen.huffingtonpost.com\/latinos-break-the-mold\/\" target=\"_blank\">limitless amount of racial identities<\/a> that can live within the Latino community. That means Latinos can be asian, black, mixed race and, yes, even white.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you ever hear anyone say, \u2018This is America and 77 percent of it is white.\u2019 Whether they know it or not, they\u2019re including a very large number of people who identify as Hispanic or Latino,\u201d Ramsay says in the video as she breaks down \u201cHispanic\u201d isn\u2019t a racial category in the census.<\/p>\n<p>Ramsey also enlisted the help of YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Video_blog\" target=\"_blank\">vlogger<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheeKatsMeoww\" target=\"_blank\">Kat Lazo<\/a> to help further break down the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/difference-between-hispanic-latino-and-spanish_us_55a7ec20e4b0c5f0322c9e44\" target=\"_blank\">difference between Hispanic and Latino<\/a> (or the gender neutral term <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/why-people-are-using-the-term-latinx_us_57753328e4b0cc0fa136a159\" target=\"_blank\">Latinx<\/a>), plus explain the differences between race and ethnicity&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/mtv-decoded-answers-the-question-are-hispanic-people-white_us_57bf4aa4e4b085c1ff287727\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTV Decoded Answers The Question \u2018Are Hispanic People White?\u2019 Latino Voices The Huffington Post 2016-08-25 Carolina Moreno, Editor It\u2019s complicated. When it comes to matters of race and ethnicity, things can get very complicated. Thankfully, Franchesa Ramsey is always ready to decode everything. In a new episode of MTV News, the host of \u201cDecoded\u201d tackled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,14646,8,20,842],"tags":[19651,24877,24876,17462,2425],"class_list":["post-48860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","tag-carolina-moreno","tag-franchesa-ramsey","tag-kat-lazo","tag-latino-voices","tag-the-huffington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48860","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=48860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48861,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48860\/revisions\/48861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}