WHITE HISPANIC

In the United States, a 'White Hispanic' is an American citizen or resident alien of Hispanic ethnicity who is officially classified by the United States Census Bureau, Office of Management and Budget and other U.S. government agencies as a White American, an official U.S. racial category which itself officially refers to people of European, Middle Eastern, and North African origin residing in the United States. For further discussion on the term White American, please see that article.
Hispanicity, which is independent of race, is the only ethnic category, as opposed to racial category, which is officially collated by the U.S. Census Bureau. The distinction made by government agencies for those within the population of any official race category, including "White American", is between those with Hispanic ethnic backgrounds and all others of non-Hispanic ethnic backgrounds.
In the case of White Americans, these two groups are respectively termed '"White Hispanics"' and '"non-Hispanic Whites"'; the former having at least one ancestor from the people of Spain or Spanish-speaking Latin America, and the latter consisting of an ethnically diverse collection of all others who are classified as White Americans that are of non-Hispanic ethnic backgrounds.

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Demographic information

Representation and debate

See also

References

External links

Demographic information

In the most recent United States Census conducted in 2000, 16,907,852 Americans, or 47.9% of the then 35,305,818 U.S. Hispanics self-identified as white, and they constituted the plurality of Hispanics in the United States.^[1] Hispanics who reported "Some other race" were the second largest group, and they constituted 42.2% of all Hispanics in the United States. Of all people who reported "Some other race", only 3% were non-Hispanic. Of the remainder of Hispanics, 2% reported they were Black, 1.2% reported themselves as Indigenous peoples of the Americas, 0.3% as Asian, and 0.1% as Pacific Islanders. Approximately 6% of all U.S. Hispanics reported "two or more races" or (multiracial) with many being mulatto or mestizo.^[1] Respondents who reported Mexican, Latin American, Latino, or Chicano in the "''Some other race''" section of the 2000 US Census were automatically counted in the white category.^[4] It should be noted that where "some other race" is not included as a separate racial group, they are counted as "white", leading to 93% of Hispanics being considered "white" in intercensal Census Bureau estimates. [2]
Numerically, most White U.S. Hispanics are Mexican American, and White Mexican Americans alone comprise the majority of White U.S. Hispanics. Proportional to their individual U.S. Hispanic group by national origin, however, White Mexican Americans comprise around 49% of the total Mexican American population.
The second largest number of White U.S. Hispanics, after White Mexican Americans, is composed of Cuban Americans and Puerto Rican Americans. These three U.S Hispanic groups by national origin together comprise almost the entire population of White U.S. Hispanics. Proportional to their individual U.S. Hispanic group by national origin, White Cuban Americans comprise the overall majority of the total Cuban American population, however, this differs significantly from Cuba's own ethnographic profile as well as the CIA World Factbook's profile of Cuba, which places Cuba as a mulatto majority country, followed by a large white and a small black minority.^[5] This is because after Castro's revolution, a large fraction of Cuba's primarily white middle class emigrated to the United States.
While constituting a smaller segment of the White U.S. Hispanic population — and of the U.S. Hispanic population in general — proportional to their individual groups by Hispanic national origin, Spanish Americans (i.e. from Spain), and the great majority of Argentine Americans and Uruguayan Americans are also White U.S. Hispanics. Spain, a European country, along with Argentina and Uruguay are composed of white majorities.
According to the latest census data, other U.S. Hispanics from other Hispanic countries, such as Chilean Americans and other South American U.S. Hispanics, are also predominantly white irrespective of the actual ethnographic profiles of their individual countries. To the exclusion of Guatemala, Bolivia, and Peru (which have Amerindian majorities or pluralities) and the aforementioned Argentina and Uruguay (of white majorities), the countries of Hispanic America are of mestizo and/or mulatto majorities, where the white populations constitute minorities of different sizes, such as Chile where the minority is large, or El Salvador where it is small.

Representation and debate

White U.S. Hispanics are often overlooked in the U.S. mass media and in general American social perceptions, where being "Hispanic" is often incorrectly given a racial value, usually mixed-race, that is, mestizo or mulatto.^[6]
Others accuse the U.S Hispanic media (and Latin American media in general) of hiding its black and indigenous population, amid claims that telenovelas or soaps contain a disproportionate of white, largely blonde and blue eyed actors. They argue that the color spectrum of Hispanics is not reflected in the media as the majority of actors are white as opposed to other races.^[7][8][9]
Opposition to categorizing Hispanics and their respective national ancestries separately from other ancestries in the U.S. has been increasing as it is seen by some as ethnic isolation.^[6][11]

See also

★ White American

★ White Latin American

★ White

★ Notable Hispanics

★ Hispanic

★ Latino

★ Hispanics in the United States

★ Ethnicity (United States Census)

★ Race (United States Census)

References

1. http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/cenbr01-1.pdf Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: 2000
2. http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/cenbr01-1.pdf Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: 2000
3. http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/cenbr01-1.pdf Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: 2000
4. Surveilance Epidemology and End Results. Race and Nationality Descriptions from the 2000 US Census and Bureau of Vital Statistics. 2007. May 21, 2007. [1]
5. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cu.html
6. A CULTURAL IDENTITY
7. Y Tu Black Mama Tambien
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Washington post
9. Boston globe
10. A CULTURAL IDENTITY
11. Separated by a common language: The case of the white Hispanic

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★ Separated by a common language: The case of the white Hispanic