Should Hispanics instead be called Latinos?
Should Hispanics instead be called Latinos?
- October 11, 2016
- Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies and poli sci, courtesy of BBC, Oct. 11, 2016
"It was a bureaucratic term,” professor Louis DeSipio, a Latino politics expert at the University of California, Irvine, tells the BBC. ... An alternative term, Latino, "emerged more out of popular conversation,” says Professor DeSipio. But he insists this was a debate back in the 1970s and 1980s, and now thinks both terms are "synonymous".
For the full story, please visit http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37614063.
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