Hispanic and Latino Americans: Difference between revisions

| related = {{hlist|[[Latin Americans]]|[[Spanish Americans]]|[[Portuguese Americans]]|[[White Latin Americans]]|[[White Hispanic and Latino Americans]]|[[Equatoguinean Americans]]|[[Afro-Latin Americans]]|[[Black Hispanic and Latino Americans]]|[[Native Americans in the United States|Indigenous Americans]]|[[Hispanos of New Mexico|Hispanos]]|[[Tejano]]s|[[Chicano]]s|[[Nuyorican]]s|[[Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans]]<ref name="Krogstad 2021">{{cite web |last1=Krogstad |first1=Jens M. |last2=Passel |first2=Jeffrey S. |last3=Lopez |first3=Mark H. |date=23 September 2021 |title=Who is Hispanic? |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/09/23/who-is-hispanic/ |website=[[Pew Research Center]] |location=[[Washington, D.C.]] |access-date=1 October 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210929011446/https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/09/23/who-is-hispanic/ |archive-date=29 September 2021}}</ref>|}}

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'''Hispanic and Latino Americans''' ({{lang-es|Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos}}; {{lang-pt|Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos}}) are [[Americans]] of full or partial [[Spaniards|Spanish]], [[Hispanic Africa|Hispanic African]] and/or [[Latin Americans|Latin American]] background, culture, or family origin.<ref name="Krogstad 2021" /><ref name="FragaGarcia2010">{{cite book |last1=Fraga |first1=Luis |author-link1=Luis Fraga |last2=Garcia |first2=John A. |name-list-style=amp |title=Latino Lives in America: Making It Home |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XaNluPNVEQcC&pg=PA145 |year=2010 |publisher=Temple University Press |isbn=978-1-4399-0050-5 |page=145}}</ref><ref name="Fisher1996">{{cite book|first=Nancy L. |last=Fisher |title=Cultural and Ethnic Diversity: A Guide for Genetics Professionals |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqXlA7e4VN8C&pg=PA19 |year=1996 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|isbn=978-0-8018-5346-3|page=19}}</ref><ref name="HoldenVillars2012">{{cite book |last1=Holden |first1=Robert H. |last2=Villars |first2=Rina |name-list-style=amp |title=Contemporary Latin America: 1970 to the Present |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2oShLUAPTYQC&pg=PA18 |year=2012 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-27487-3|page=18}}</ref> These demographics include all Americans who identify as [[Hispanic]] or [[Latino (demonym)|Latino]] regardless of race.<ref name="Federal Highway Administration">{{cite web |title=49 CFR Part 26 |url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/hep/guidance/superseded/49cfr26.cfm |access-date=2012-10-22 |website=Federal Highway Administration |quote='Hispanic Americans,' which includes persons of [[Mexican Americans|Mexican]], [[Puerto Rican Americans|Puerto Rican]], [[Cuban Americans|Cuban]], [[Dominican Americans|Dominican]], [[Central America|Central]] or [[South America]]n, or other [[Spanish Americans|Spanish]] or [[Portuguese Americans|Portuguese]] culture or origin, regardless of race.}}</ref><ref name="SBA 8005">{{cite web |url=http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/sops/8005/sop8005-3.pdf |title=US Small Business Administration 8(a) Program Standard Operating Procedure |access-date=2012-10-22 |quote=SBA has defined 'Hispanic American' as an individual whose ancestry and culture are rooted in South America, Central America, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Mexico. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060925005103/http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/sops/8005/sop8005-3.pdf |archive-date=2006-09-25}}</ref><ref name="c2010def">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf |title=Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: 2010 |access-date=2011-03-28 |first1=Karen R. |last1=Humes |first2=Nicholas A. |last2=Jones |first3=Roberto R. |last3=Ramirez |website=U.S. Census Bureau |quote="Hispanic or Latino" refers to a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429214029/http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf |archive-date=2011-04-29}}</ref><ref name="hlorigin">{{cite web |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/help/en/hispanic_or_latino_origin.htm |title=American FactFinder Help: Hispanic or Latino origin |website=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=2008-10-05 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213004743/http://factfinder.census.gov/help/en/hispanic_or_latino_origin.htm |archive-date=2020-02-13 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="PewNov2019">{{cite web |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/11/who-is-hispanic/ |title=Who Is Hispanic? |last1=Lopez |first1=Mark Hugo |last2=Krogstad |first2=Jens M. |last3=Passel |first3=Jeffrey S. |name-list-style=amp |date=November 11, 2019 |website=Pew Research Center}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Tello |first=Yvette |date=2024-01-08 |title=Hispanic with a Non-Spanish Last Name |url=https://laprensatexas.com/hispanic-with-a-non-spanish-last-name/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=La Prensa Texas |language=en-US}}</ref> As of 2020, the Census Bureau estimated that there were almost 65.3 million Hispanics and Latinos living in the [[United States]] and [[Territories of the United States|its territories]].

Preference of use between the terms among Hispanics in the United States often depends on where users of the respective terms reside. Those in the Eastern United States tend to prefer the term ''Hispanic'', whereas those in the West tend to prefer ''Latino''.<ref name=omb/>

 

 

[[File:Iglesia Nuestra Senora_de la Guadalupe.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Manhattan)|Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe]] in [[Little Spain]] on [[14th Street (Manhattan)|14th Street]] in [[Manhattan]], an important nucleus for many decades for the Spanish community in New York City<ref>{{cite web |url=https://guadalupeshrineny.org/who-are-we |title=Who are we?/ Quienes Somos? |website=Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in New York City}}</ref>]]