SOCIOL 131AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: 1980 United States Census, League Of United Latin American Citizens, De Facto
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The racial and ethnic status/classification of latinos in the united states. Is person 1 of hispanic, latino, or spanish origin: no, yes, mexican, mexican am. , chicano, yes, puerto rican, yes, cuban, yes, another hispanic, latino, or spanish origin print origin, for example, argentinian, colombian, dominican, nicaraguan, Census doesn"t distinguish the terms as different. Since the 2000 census, you can check that all that apply. And why do about half of latinos choose white, while just under. Guaranteed to mexicans who stayed in the u. s. after the conquest. All the right of citizens in the u. s. In theory, this grants mexicans all the rights of free white persons. Dark-skinned mexicans were often denied rights because judges determined them as indians. Court finds that treaty covers him, so he can naturalize: but court signals doubts that mexicans are white by any scientific or popular understandings of the term, still, makes mexicans in some sense white by law .
