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The Experiment Podcast: Is ‘Latino’ A Real Identity?
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32:49Now PlayingIn 1980, the Census Bureau introduced a pair of new terms, Hispanic and Latino, to its decennial count, effectively grouping identities like Puerto Rican, Mexican, and Cuban. The addition was the result of years of advocacy and negotiation: Being counted on the census meant the potential for far more government action, yet the broad category oversimplified the identities of an immense and diverse group. “The way that we define ourselves is consequential,” says G. Cristina Mora, a sociology professor at UC Berkeley. “The larger the category, the more statistical power it would have.” In this episode of The Experiment, the origin story of a core American identity—and what’s lost when such a broad category takes hold.
This episode was originally published on March 11, 2021.
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