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| Autor/inn/en | Passel, Jeffrey; Taylor, Paul |
|---|---|
| Titel | Who's Hispanic? |
| Quelle | In: Social Studies and the Young Learner, 22 (2009) 2, S.29-31 (3 Seiten)
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 1056-0300 |
| Schlagwörter | Ethnicity; Foreign Countries; Hispanic Americans; Definitions; Federal Legislation; Census Figures; History; Norms; Cultural Background; Classification |
| Abstract | If one turns to the U.S. government for answers to a daunting question: "Just who is a Hispanic?", he/she discovers that it has two different approaches to this definitional question. Both are products of a 1976 act of Congress and the administrative regulations that flow from it. One approach defines a Hispanic or Latino as a member of an ethnic group that traces its roots to 20 Spanish-speaking nations from Latin America and Spain itself. The other approach is much simpler. Who's Hispanic? Anyone who says they are. And nobody who says they aren't. The U.S. Census Bureau uses this second approach. By its way of counting, there were 46,943,613 Hispanics in the United States as of July 1, 2008, comprising 15.4 percent of the total national population. But behind the impressive precision of this official Census number lies a long history of changing labels, shifting categories and revised question wording--all of which reflect evolving cultural norms about what it means to be Hispanic. This article presents a quick primer on how the Census Bureau approach works. (Contains 3 notes.) (ERIC). |
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| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2017/4/10 |
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