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Title: Latino/a Youth

Citation Type: Book, Section

Publication Year: 2016

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DOI: 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosl066

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Abstract: The terms “Latino” and “Hispanic” are often used interchangeably by the news media, in academia, and by business, schools, hospitals, and government agencies to describe individuals of Spanish and/or Latin American descent who live in the United States. Throughout the twentieth century, groups included under these panethnic terms are reflective of highly contested political nomenclature (Rodríguez 2009) and do not reflect underlying biological or genetic roots that differentiate the different ethnic groups. In the US Census, Latino individuals can self‐identify as both an ethnic group (e.g., Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican) and a racial group (e.g., Black, White, Asian). Thus, it is possible for an individual to identify as a Mexican‐Asian American, or a Black Puerto Rican. Because the terms Latino and Hispanic are so widely treated as the same, they are similarly used interchangeably here.

Url: http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosl066

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Authors: Burgos, Giovani; Trillo, Alex F.

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Pages: 102-109

Volume Title: The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Publisher Location: Oxford, UK

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Race and Ethnicity

Countries: United States