I understand that latin* is often considered to be an ethnicity rather than a race, but without getting out the calipers, what’s the meaningful difference there?
I.E. in terms of the role the social categorization plays, what’s the difference between the class of categories that includes Latin* and the class of categories that includes Black/East Asian/ etc
Anybody from any Latin American country can describe themselves as Latino, so if anything, it is an umbrella term for a number of nationalities, neither a race or an ethnicity.
You can be white and Latino, or black and Latino, or indigenous and Latino or mestizo and Latin, the same way you could be any of those things and “American” (as in born in the United States).
I understand that latin* is often considered to be an ethnicity rather than a race, but without getting out the calipers, what’s the meaningful difference there?
I.E. in terms of the role the social categorization plays, what’s the difference between the class of categories that includes Latin* and the class of categories that includes Black/East Asian/ etc
Anybody from any Latin American country can describe themselves as Latino, so if anything, it is an umbrella term for a number of nationalities, neither a race or an ethnicity.
You can be white and Latino, or black and Latino, or indigenous and Latino or mestizo and Latin, the same way you could be any of those things and “American” (as in born in the United States).