{"id":59317,"date":"2019-12-02T02:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T02:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59317"},"modified":"2019-12-02T02:21:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T02:21:40","slug":"who-is-hispanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59317","title":{"rendered":"Who is Hispanic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2019\/11\/11\/who-is-hispanic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Who is Hispanic?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fact Tank: News in the Numbers<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pew Research Center<\/a><br \/>\n2019-11-11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/staff\/mark-hugo-lopez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mark Hugo Lopez<\/strong><\/a>, Director, Global Migration and Demography Research<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/staff\/jens-manuel-krogstad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jens Manuel Krogstad<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Writer\/Editor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/staff\/jeffrey-s-passel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jeffrey S. Passel<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Demographer<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2019\/11\/11\/who-is-hispanic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-322889 size-640-wide\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FT_19.11.08_WhoIsHispanic_feature.jpg?w=640\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FT_19.11.08_WhoIsHispanic_feature.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FT_19.11.08_WhoIsHispanic_feature.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FT_19.11.08_WhoIsHispanic_feature.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FT_19.11.08_WhoIsHispanic_feature.jpg?resize=1024,576 1024w, https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FT_19.11.08_WhoIsHispanic_feature.jpg?resize=160,90 160w, https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FT_19.11.08_WhoIsHispanic_feature.jpg?resize=720,405 720w, https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FT_19.11.08_WhoIsHispanic_feature.jpg?resize=200,113 200w, https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FT_19.11.08_WhoIsHispanic_feature.jpg?resize=260,146 260w, https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FT_19.11.08_WhoIsHispanic_feature.jpg?resize=310,174 310w, https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FT_19.11.08_WhoIsHispanic_feature.jpg?resize=420,236 420w, https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FT_19.11.08_WhoIsHispanic_feature.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FT_19.11.08_WhoIsHispanic_feature.jpg?resize=740,416 740w, https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FT_19.11.08_WhoIsHispanic_feature.jpg?resize=540,304 540w\" alt=\"Miami, Junta Hispania Hispanic Festival, beauty pageant contestants\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Beauty pageant contestants at the <a href=\"http:\/\/juntahispana.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Junta Hispana Hispanic cultural festival<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miami\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miami<\/a>. <em>(Jeffrey Greenberg\/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Debates over who is Hispanic and who is not have fueled conversations about identity among Americans who trace their heritage to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latin_America\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latin America<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spain<\/a>. The question surfaced during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2016\/02\/19\/is-speaking-spanish-necessary-to-be-hispanic-most-hispanics-say-no\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. presidential debates<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/27\/us\/27hispanic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the confirmation<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sonia_Sotomayor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sonia Sotomayor<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Supreme Court<\/a>. More recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/mundo\/noticias-49505207\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it bubbled<\/a> up after a singer from Spain won the \u201cBest Latin\u201d award at the 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MTV_Video_Music_Award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video Music Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, who is considered Hispanic in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a>? And how are they counted in public opinion surveys, voter exit polls and government surveys like the upcoming 2020 census?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2019\/11\/11\/who-is-hispanic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, who is considered Hispanic in the United States? And how are they counted in public opinion surveys, voter exit polls and government surveys like the upcoming 2020 census?<\/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":[3124,17180,14994,3122],"class_list":["post-59317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-jeffrey-s-passel","tag-jens-manuel-krogstad","tag-mark-hugo-lopez","tag-pew-research-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59317","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=59317"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59325,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59317\/revisions\/59325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}