Why hispanic is offensive

Robert Lopez, a former Times journalist and current executive director for communications and public affairs at Cal State Los Angeles, worked as an intern for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in summer , and was tasked with getting endorsements for the bill that was eventually signed into law by President Ronald Reagan. Lopez recalls how he learned more about the accomplishments of Latinos from the Congressional Research Service than from his formal education. Another critique of Hispanic Heritage Month is that it sanitizes the actual history of Latinos in the U.

But cynicism and shortcomings aside, Hispanic Heritage Month is an opportunity for Latinos to learn their history, the good and the bad. Still, he said despite the fact that there have been many contributions to the study of Latinos in academia, very little of that history has made its way into K curriculums. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would require high schoolers in the state to take a course in ethnic studies in order to graduate.

Cristina Mora. The Latino community is not a monolith. It is formed from people with different countries of origin, of different races and even different languages. Garcia is considered one of the foremost scholars on the Chicano movement — he was recently cited in Los Angeles Times reporting on the 50th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium. Fidel Martinez writes the Latinx Files, a weekly newsletter that focuses on the American Latinx experience.

Using the term "Latinx" to refer to all people of Latin American decent has become more common as members in the LGBTQ community and its advocates have embraced the label. The gendered structure of the Spanish language has made "Latinx" both an inclusive and controversial term. Even though "Latinos" technically refers to all genders of Latin American descent, it's still a masculine word in Spanish. For example, a group of females would be called "Latinas" and a group of males would be called "Latinos.

Maybe we live in rarefied circles. It is, indeed, offensive. And I personally apologize. Still, some found Shortz's original explanation wanting: Critics said editors at one of the nation's pre-eminent newspapers should have been familiar with the word's history as an ethnic insult. Mexican-Americans compose nearly two-thirds of the largest minority group in the nation, Latinos, and "beaner" is by far the most prominent anti-Mexican slur, academics say.

It's also been associated with deadly crimes. In , in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York, an Ecuadorian immigrant, Marcelo Lucero, 37, was fatally stabbed in what prosecutors said was a rampage by a gang of white teens who described their actions as "beaner-hopping. Those who say others see them as white are less likely to say this has happened. A similar pattern is true when it comes to experiencing discrimination: Those who say others see them as white are less likely than other groups of Latinos to report experiencing one of the four incidents asked about in the survey.

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