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There are many Spanish Black people that have African heritage. So you are saying only certain skin colors are latino?
True Latinos show heritage to a Romance language country. South American dark skin is not the same as African Black (or shades of which is due to the proximaty to the equator - countries on the equator have the darkest skin while people near the poles have very light skin). So to answer your question is not that simple as color. But usually the darker the skin color either leads to an Indian or African without testing for European genes. Most of African looking blacks in spanish speaking countries were brought there as slaves of the colonists from Spain.
If you look up the history of South America you will find that due to the Spaniards nearly 75% of the population died to numerous reasons.
True Latinos show heritage to a Romance language country. South American dark skin is not the same as African Black (or shades of which is due to the proximaty to the equator - countries on the equator have the darkest skin while people near the poles have very light skin). So to answer your question is not that simple as color. But usually the darker the skin color either leads to an Indian or African without testing for European genes. Most of African looking blacks in spanish speaking countries were brought there as slaves of the colonists from Spain.
If you look up the history of South America you will find that due to the Spaniards nearly 75% of the population died to numerous reasons.
There are many Afro Latinos if you look it up.
You can't exclude them because they have African origin. That is racist.
Colombia has many Afro Latinos.
There are many Latinos that are Asian too, that live in the countries.
If you want to be Technical saying only Romance languages, you have to include Hatians who speak French.
The issue of the perceived color of Italians has changed completely over the course of my lifetime.When I was growing up in an Irish ghetto we were taught by family and Irish nuns that Italians were non white.It was totally ignorant of course but Italians were considered "colored".Marriage between Irish and Italian people was strongly discouraged and was quite rare because Italians were considered another race.When I was a kid my older sister married an Italian guy and the fighting,screaming and name calling that went on is still a vivd memory for me.I mean real knock down battles ! Within a decade attitudes changed dramatically and the Irish/Italian wedding combo became quite common.
The issue of Italians not being considered "White," according to my Italian-family by-marriage, came from the invasion of North African immigrants into Sicily many, many years' ago. Many intermarried with Italians.
As many others have pointed out here, what is considered "Latino in NYC," is a term derived in California to identify Mexican people, who did not like the term "Chicanos."
As an Hispanic born in NYC, who speaks English and Spanish, that is what I consider myself to be, and that is what the Census considers me, an Hispanic-American. I have never identified myself as a "Latino."
The issue of Italians not being considered "White," according to my Italian-family by-marriage, came from the invasion of North African immigrants into Sicily many, many years' ago. Many intermarried with Italians.
Italians are a mixed bunch. Northern italy was ruled by gauls, romans, goths, lombards, franks, holy roman empire who spoke german, france, italian unification. Southern italy was ruled by the greeks, romans, byzantines, arabs briefly, lombards, scilians, spanish for a couple of centuries, then france and after unification. Central italy was ruled by the pope. Sicily was ruled by the greeks and carthage who fought over the island. Rome, goths, byzantines, arabs, normans, spanish, french under napoleon. Many scilians are descendents of north africans by carthegian and arab north african. Example the word mafia is an arabic word which was used sicily. I could see why italians not considered white at an historical perspective.
QUESTION: If a woman is ethnically/culturally African-American, and multiracial (60% African/ 40% other), and has a child with a Puerto Rican man (mixed appearance), what is the child? AA or Latino, or something else? Is the child's designation more about nature or nurture?
As the soon-to-be mom of a "mixed-race" kid, I say it is up to the kid to decide. But according to the latest census results, more and more Americans are choosing to call themselves multiracial instead of the old way of only choosing one side.
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