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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic and Latino Americans (Spanish: Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Portuguese: Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of Spanish and/or Latin American ancestry.[3][5][6][7] These demographics include all Americans who identify as Hispanic or Latino regardless of ancestry.[8][9][10][11][12] As of 2020, the Census Bureau estimated that there were almost 65.3 million Hispanics and Latinos living in the United States and its territories.[1]

"Hispanic and Latino" redirects here. For the ethnic categories, see Hispanic and Latino (ethnic categories).

"Origin" can be viewed as the ancestry, nationality group, lineage or country of birth of the person or the person's parents or ancestors before their arrival in the United States of America. People who identify as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race, because similar to what occurred during the colonization and post-independence of the United States, Latin American countries had their populations made up of descendants of white European colonizers (in this case Portuguese and Spaniards), Native peoples of the Americas, descendants of African slaves, post-independence immigrants coming from Europe, Middle East and East Asia, as well as descendants of multiracial unions between these different ethnic groups.[13][14][15][16] As one of the only two specifically designated categories of ethnicity in the United States, Hispanics and Latinos form a pan-ethnicity incorporating a diversity of inter-related cultural and linguistic heritages, the use of the Spanish and Portuguese languages being the most important of all. Most Hispanic and Latino Americans are of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Salvadoran, Dominican, Colombian, Guatemalan, Honduran, Ecuadorian, Peruvian, Venezuelan or Nicaraguan origin. The predominant origin of regional Hispanic and Latino populations varies widely in different locations across the country.[14][17][18][19][20] In 2012, Hispanic Americans were the second fastest-growing ethnic group by percentage growth in the United States after Asian Americans.[21]


Multiracial Hispanics (Mestizo) of Indigenous descent and Spanish descent are the second oldest ethnic groups (after the Native Americans) to inhabit much of what is today the United States.[22][23][24][25] Spain colonized large areas of what is today the American Southwest and West Coast, as well as Florida. Its holdings included present-day California, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and Florida, all of which constituted part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, based in Mexico City. Later, this vast territory became part of Mexico after its independence from Spain in 1821 and until the end of the Mexican–American War in 1848. Hispanic immigrants to the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area derive from a broad spectrum of Hispanic countries.[26]

Hispanic and Latino American population distribution over time

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a Spanish-language news network based in Atlanta, Georgia;

CNN en Español

and Fox Deportes, two Spanish-language sports television networks.

ESPN Deportes

Telemundo

TeleXitos

Univisión

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an American Spanish-language broadcast television network owned by the Estrella Media.

Estrella TV

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Primo TV

a Spanish-language television network in the United States, with affiliates in nearly every major U.S. market, and numerous affiliates internationally;

Azteca América

Fuse

FM

Latino, a Spanish-language Christian television network based in West Frankfort, Illinois;

3ABN

a Spanish-language Christian television network based in Tustin, California;

TBN Enlace USA

(Bless Me, Ultima and Heart of Aztlan)

Rudolfo Anaya

(Sacrifice on the Border)

Cecilia Domeyko

(art historian, Masters of Ukiyoe)

Ernest Fenollosa

(Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa)

Rigoberto González

(Crisis and La frontera salvaje[312]).

Jorge Majfud

("Mind Your Manners, Dick and Jane", "Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa")[313]

Micol Ostow

(A Matter of Men and September Elegies)

Benito Pastoriza Iyodo

(Capirotada, Elk Heads on the Wall and The Iguana Killer)

Alberto Alvaro Rios

(...And the Earth did Not Devour Him)

Tomas Rivera

Richard Rodríguez ()

Hunger of Memory

(novelist and philosopher: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it")

George Santayana

(From This Wicked Patch of Dust and The Last Tortilla and Other Stories)

Sergio Troncoso

(Haters)

Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

(Rain of Gold)

Victor Villaseñor

List of U.S. communities with Hispanic- or Latino-majority in the 2010 census

List of U.S. cities with large Hispanic and Latino populations

List of U.S. cities by Spanish-speaking population

Hispanics and Latinos in New Jersey

Hispanics and Latinos in Massachusetts

Hispanics and Latinos in Washington, D.C.

Hispanics and Latinos in California

Hispanics and Latinos in Arizona

Hispanics and Latinos in New Mexico

Hispanics and Latinos in Texas

Hispanics and Latinos in Nevada

Hispanics and Latinos in Florida

Hispanics and Latinos in New York

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Other Hispanic and Latino Americans topics:


General:

2000 Census

Library of Congress

Hispanic Americans in Congress

Hispanic Americans in the U.S. Army

by Josh Miller, PBS, April 27, 2007

Latino-Americans Become Unofficial Face of Politics Abroad

CNN

Latino in America