{"id":59934,"date":"2020-07-08T18:58:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T18:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59934"},"modified":"2020-07-08T18:58:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T18:58:33","slug":"today-one-in-four-latin-americans-self-identify-as-having-african-ancestry-according-to-a-recent-world-bank-report-approximately-645-million-people-live-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59934","title":{"rendered":"Today, one in four Latin Americans self-identify as having African ancestry, according to a recent World Bank report (approximately 645 million people live in Latin America and the Caribbean)."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Today, one in four Latin Americans self-identify as having African ancestry, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/openknowledge.worldbank.org\/handle\/10986\/30201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent World Bank report<\/a> (approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/indicator\/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=ZJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">645 million people<\/a> live in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latin_America_and_the_Caribbean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Latin America and the Caribbean<\/a>). But, as the report explains, Afro-descendants are \u201cunderrepresented in decision-making positions, both in the private and the public sector,\u201d and they \u201care 2.5 times more likely to live in chronic poverty than whites or mestizos.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jorge Ramos, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Hard Conversation for the Latino Community<\/a>,\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em>, July 3, 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/03\/opinion\/ramos-afro-latinos-racism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/03\/opinion\/ramos-afro-latinos-racism.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, one in four Latin Americans self-identify as having African ancestry, according to a recent World Bank report (approximately 645 million people live in Latin America and the Caribbean). But, as the report explains, Afro-descendants are \u201cunderrepresented in decision-making positions, both in the private and the public sector,\u201d and they \u201care 2.5 times more likely [&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":[30988,30987,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-59934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-jorge-gilberto-ramos-avalos","tag-jorge-ramos","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59934","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=59934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59935,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59934\/revisions\/59935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}