I always reference him as proof that no distinction was made between Spanish-surnamed individuals and Whites in the U.S. in the not so distant past.Anyway, keep them coming! P.S. Considering that people such as Perez were of direct Spanish descent(And therefore not Latino.), you should change the sites name to "Forgotten Hispanic History"
Since the term "Latino" was introduced in the early 2000s as an alternate for "hispanic", it has been used to mean whatever people want it to mean. There's no concrete definition. It's commonly used to refer to people who are of Spanish colonial descent in the United States. Political commentator Linda Chavez from New Mexico is an example of a "Latino" that's not of Latin-American origin.
Some newer academic literature calls Leander Perez "Latino". There's a "Latino encyclopedia" that credits Perez as one of Louisiana's notable Latinos.
Lima, Lázaro. "Latino Louisiana." In Latino America: A State-by-State Encyclopedia
Actually "Latino" is short for "Latinoamerican".However it should be noted that Latino is the Spanish word for Latin(The language spoken by the ancient Romans and ethnicities whose language descends from that tongue(e.g Spaniards, Italians, Portuguese).But today, it is essentially a euphemism/P.C. term for a brown Mestizo
I always reference him as proof that no distinction was made between Spanish-surnamed individuals and Whites in the U.S. in the not so distant past.Anyway, keep them coming! P.S. Considering that people such as Perez were of direct Spanish descent(And therefore not Latino.), you should change the sites name to "Forgotten Hispanic History"
ReplyDeleteSince the term "Latino" was introduced in the early 2000s as an alternate for "hispanic", it has been used to mean whatever people want it to mean. There's no concrete definition. It's commonly used to refer to people who are of Spanish colonial descent in the United States. Political commentator Linda Chavez from New Mexico is an example of a "Latino" that's not of Latin-American origin.
ReplyDeleteSome newer academic literature calls Leander Perez "Latino". There's a "Latino encyclopedia" that credits Perez as one of Louisiana's notable Latinos.
Lima, Lázaro. "Latino Louisiana." In Latino America: A State-by-State Encyclopedia
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=lalis-faculty-publications
Actually "Latino" is short for "Latinoamerican".However it should be noted that Latino is the Spanish word for Latin(The language spoken by the ancient Romans and ethnicities whose language descends from that tongue(e.g Spaniards, Italians, Portuguese).But today, it is essentially a euphemism/P.C. term for a brown Mestizo
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