Mestizos in the United States

Mestizos in the United States are Hispanic and Latino Americans whose racial and/or ethnic identity is Mestizo, i.e. a mixed ancestry of European and Native American from Latin America (usually Ibero-Indigenous mixed ancestry).

Mestizos
Total population
18,501,942[1]
5.7% of total United States population (2017)
Regions with significant populations
 United States
Languages
Spanish (Including Mexican Spanish and Puerto Rican Spanish), Brazilian Portuguese
Religion
Christianity (Roman Catholicism)
Related ethnic groups
White Hispanic and Latino Americans, Hispanos, Ladino, Latin American Amerindians, Genízaro, Latin American Indian, White Latin Americans, Indigenous peoples / Native Americans, Indigenous Mexican Americans

This group does not include Métis people of the United States (usually with Anglo-Indigenous mixed ancestry) or Métis people of Canada (usually with Franco-Indigenous or Scottish-Indigenous mixed ancestry) residing in the US, nor does it include Tejanos, Nuevomexicanos, Louisiana Creoles, nor Multiracial Americans, whose ethnic identity is Native American or Latin American Indian. Their commonality is that they are all descendants of the indigenous American Indians and White Europeans. In fact the words Métis and Mestizos have the same meaning which is someone of American Indian and White European descent. Many Mestizos identify with their American Indian ancestry while others tend to self-identify with their European ancestry, others still celebrate both.

It is difficult to know the exact number of Latino Americans self-identifying as Mestizo, in part because "Mestizo" is not an official racial category in the Census. According to the 2010 United States Census, 36.7% of the 52 million Hispanic/Latino Americans identify as "some other race",[2] and most of the remainder consider themselves white. Further complicating matters is the fact that many federal agencies such as the CDC[3] or CIA[4] do not even recognize the "some other race" category, including this population in the white category.

Representation in the media

Mestizos are overrepresented in the U.S. mass media and in general American social perceptions, as Hispanic and Latino are often mistakenly given racial values, usually non-white and mixed race, such as mestizo or mulatto, in spite of the racial diversity of Hispanic and Latino Americans, while they are overlooked in the U.S. Hispanic mass media and in general U.S. Hispanic social perceptions; critics have accused the U.S. Hispanic mass media of overlooking the mestizo, mulatto and other multiracial Hispanic populations, the Latin American indigenous peoples, the black Hispanic populations and the stereotypical white Hispanics with olive skin, dark hair, and dark eyes by excluding them in favor of blond, blue/green-eyed white Hispanic and Latino Americans, along with light-skinned mulatto and mestizo Hispanic and Latino Americans.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]

See also

References
  1. "2017 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates: HISPANIC OR LATINO ORIGIN BY RACE". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on February 14, 2020. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  2. "Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: 2010" (PDF). Census.gov. Retrieved 2013-10-23.
  3. "National Vital Statistics Report". Cdc.gov. 24 November 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  4. "The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency". Cia.gov. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  5. "Typical stereotypes of Hispanics", NLCATP (National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention), March 14, 2014
  6. Genetic makeup of Hispanic/Latino Americans influenced by Native American, European and African-American ancestries, Science Daily, May 31, 2010
  7. Quinonez, Ernesto (2003-06-19). "Y Tu Black Mama Tambien". Retrieved 2008-05-02.
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2005-07-19. Retrieved 2017-09-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. "LatinoLA - Forum :: Blonde, Blue-Eyed, Euro-Cute Latinos on Spanish TV". Latinola.com. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  10. "Latinos not reflected on Spanish TV". Vidadeoro.com. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  11. "What are Telenovelas?". Bellaonline.com. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  12. "Racial Bias Charged On Spanish-language Tv". Articles.sun-sentinel.com. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  13. "BlackElectorate.com". Blackelectorate.com. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  14. "Pride or prejudice?". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  15. POV (23 January 1999). "Film Description - Corpus - POV - PBS". Pbs.org. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
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