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People's racial and ethnic identities don't reflect their genetic ancestry
A new study finds the genetic backgrounds of people in the U.S. are "highly complex" and may differ from their self-defined ...
US self-reported race and ethnicity are poor proxies of genetic ancestry, research suggests
Genetic ancestry is much more complicated than how people report their race and ethnicity. New research, using data from the ...
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US Race, Ethnicity Poor Genetic Ancestry Proxies
Genetic ancestry is much more complicated than how people report their race and ethnicity. New research, using data from the ...
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Who is Hispanic?
A 2015 Center survey found that 17% of Hispanic adults said being Hispanic is mainly a matter of race, while 29% said it is mainly a matter of ancestry. Another 42% said it is mainly a matter of ...
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Hispanic? Latino? How the language of identity is shifting over time
But can a single term like Hispanic or Latino describe a group with such varied ancestry and geographic origin? Mark Hugo Lopez from the Pew Research Center and Cristina Mora from UC Berkeley’s ...
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The Biden Administration Considers Whether Hispanic/Latino Should Be A Racial, Not Ethnic, Classification
whose ancestry can be any combination of European, Middle Eastern, African, Asian, and Indigenous. It's dubious to even consider "Hispanic or Latino" classification an ethnicity, given the ...
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On the D.C. Shooter’s Hispanic Ethnicity
As we processed the events in Washington D.C. last week, one of the unexplored and perhaps befuddling observations made by ...
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Who's Latino? Amid growing numbers the definition is expanding
One of them, 23andMe, said it had a 50% jump in new customers of Hispanic descent, while MyHeritage said it had a 20% to 30% increase. FamilyTreeDNA and Ancestry had big increases but didn’t say ...
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Dallas genealogy conference explores Texas' Hispanic ancestry
The Hispanic Organization for Genealogy and Research is hosting the Somos Tejas conference at the Renaissance Dallas North Hotel Friday and Saturday. More than 200 genealogists, culture ...
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Why does Hispanic Heritage Month start in the middle of September?
Why does Hispanic Heritage Month start in the middle ... achievements and contributions of Americans who trace their ancestry to Mexico, Central America, South America, the Caribbean and Spain ...
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History of the Cleveland-area’s Hispanic population and where most live now - Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic refers to persons of Spanish-speaking origin or ancestry, while Latinx is the gender-inclusive term for Latino people, which refers to anyone of Latin American origin or ancestry.
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Hispanic? Latino? How the language of identity is shifting
But can a single term like Hispanic or Latino describe a group with such varied ancestry and geographic origin? Mark Hugo Lopez from the Pew Research Center and Cristina Mora from UC Berkeley’s ...