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Essay On Identity For Hispanic Americans

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Identity in our current times can be a complex conversation to have, especially in the United States. This is something that Latinos struggle with especially when it comes to the conversation of the United States census. The United States census asks, “all Americans to identify their race and separately, whether they are Hispanic” according to John R. Logan in his text “How Race Counts for Hispanic Americans”. The census is distributed to identify the race of and ethnicity of Americans, but this survey misunderstands the Latino population in America. On page 471 Logan states “Hispanic Hispanics are the fastest-growing segment, and very likely they will soon be an absolute majority of Hispanic Americans”, while about half of the Latinos that …show more content…

The Pew Research Center also argues in their article “Afro-Latino: A deeply rooted identity among U.S. Hispanics” that; “Identity for U.S. Hispanics is multidimensional and multifaceted.”, identity for Latinos doesn’t just fall under one racial category, it’s a multidimensional aspect with many factors to consider. Many Latinos identify themselves just as the country that they orginate from and that’s what their racial identity is to them. It also becomes an even more difficult to categorize Latinos under specific racial categories when you consider the history of many Latino countries and the colonization that occurred in these countries. According to the Pew Research Center, many of these countries have mixed populations including “indigenous Americans, white Europeans, slaves from Africa and Asians.”. This can make it much more difficult for Latinos to truly categorize themselves and feel as they are a part of any category besides Hispanic which many feel truly represents

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