Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans explained

Group:Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans
Pop:598,146[1] [2]



Popplace:West Coast, Southwestern United States, Northeastern United States, Florida
Langs:American English, American Spanish, Spanglish, Portuguese, Portuglish, Asian Languages, Indigenous languages of the Americas
Rels:Christianity, predominantly Roman Catholicism
Minority Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Taoism, Shintoism, Zoroastrianism, Sikhism, Jainism
Related:Asian Latin Americans, Punjabi Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Latino Americans

Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans, also called Asian Hispanics or Asian Latinos, are Americans of Asian ancestry and ancestry from Latin America. It also refers to Asians from Latin America that speak the Spanish or Portuguese language natively and immigrated to the United States. This includes Hispanic and Latino Americans who identify themselves (or were officially classified by the United States Census Bureau, Office of Management and Budget and other U.S. government agencies) as Asian Americans.

Hispanidad, which is independent of race, is the only ethnic category, as opposed to racial category, which is officially unified by the US Census Bureau. The distinction made by government agencies for those within the population of any official race category, including "Asian American", is between those who report Hispanic and Latino ethnic backgrounds and all others who do not. In the case of Asian Americans, these two groups are respectively termed Asian Hispanic and Latinos and non-Hispanic or Latino Asian Americans, the former being those who say Asian ancestry from Spain or Latin America and the latter consisting of an ethnically diverse collection of all others who are classified as Asian Americans that do not report Spanish or Latin American ethnic backgrounds.

Population

In the 2000 US Census, 119,829 Hispanic and Latino Americans identified as being of Asian race alone.[3] In 2006, the Census Bureau's American Community Survey estimated them at 154,694,[4] while its Population Estimates, which are official, put them at 277,704.[5] In the 2010 Census, there were 598,146 Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans, including those who are multiracial in origin.[6]

Due to an 1849 decree, Filipino Americans often have Spanish surnames from the Alphabetical Catalog of Surnames.[7] [8] The Philippines was once the destination of immgration from Latin America to Asia back in the era of the Manila-Acapulco Galleons.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Hispanic Population: 2010 . Sharon R. Ennis . Merays Rios-Vargas . Nora G. Albert . May 2011 . United States Census Bureau . United States Department of Commerce . 26 May 2013.
  2. Web site: Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: 2010 . Karen R. Hume . Nicholas A. Jones. Roberto R. Ramirez . March 2011 . U.S. Census Bureau . U.S. Department of Commerce . 31 May 2011 . Table 8. The Asian Population and Largest Multiple-Race Combinations by Hispanic or Latino Origin for the United States:2010. Asian Alone or in Combination/Hispanic or Latino/598,146/100.0/(X) . https://web.archive.org/web/20110602011039/http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf. 2 June 2011 . live.
  3. Web site: Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: 2000 . U.S. Census Bureau.
  4. Web site: B03002. HISPANIC OR LATINO ORIGIN BY RACE - Universe: TOTAL POPULATION . 2006 American Community Survey . 2008-03-21 . U.S. Census Bureau .
  5. Web site: T4-2006. Hispanic or Latino By Race . 2008-03-21 . Data Set: 2006 Population Estimates . U.S. Census Bureau .
  6. Web site: Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: 2010 . Karen R. Hume . Nicholas A. Jones. Roberto R. Ramirez . March 2011 . U.S. Census Bureau . U.S. Department of Commerce . 31 May 2011 . Table 8. The Asian Population and Largest Multiple-Race Combinations by Hispanic or Latino Origin for the United States:2010. Asian Alone or in Combination/Hispanic or Latino/598,146/100.0/(X) . https://web.archive.org/web/20110602011039/http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf. 2 June 2011 . live.
  7. Book: Dumont, Jean-Paul . Morality and Society . Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island . 24 December 2012 . 1992 . University of Chicago Press . 9780226169552 . 160 .
  8. Book: Jonathan H. X. Lee. Kathleen M. Nadeau. Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife. 2011. ABC-CLIO. 978-0-313-35066-5. 333–334.

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