Title: Latina, Latino, Latinx vs. Hispanic: What the words mean
Headings: 'Latinx' explained: A history of the controversial word and how to pronounce it
'Latinx' explained: A history of the controversial word and how to pronounce it
Latinx/Latino/Latina
Hispanic

Content: Another argument against “Latinx” is that it erases feminist movements in the 1970s that fought to represent women with the word “Latina,” Cadava said. Hispanic
This controversy is similar to one that surrounded the word “Hispanic," which was first introduced by the Nixon administration on the 1970 census. “People will say that it was an imposed term rather than something embraced by the community itself,” Cadava said. He added that some argue the word “Hispanic” is a nod towards Spanish colonialism and shouldn’t be interchangeable with Latinx/Latino/Latina. However, the university professor said his studies found most Hispanic Republicans prefer the word when describing their families. Democrats, on the other hand, tend to use more progressive terms like "Latinos" and more recently "Latinx." Regardless of political affiliation, people of Latin American decent tend to identify first with their country of heritage and then second as "Latino/Latina/Latinx" or "Hispanic" to identify with a collective group, according to Dr. Rubén Martinez, director of the Julian Samora Research Institute at Michigan State University. For example, a person's family who is from Mexico will typically identify as "Mexican-American" before identifying as "Latino/Latina/Latinx" or "Hispanic." The U.S. Census still uses "Hispanic" and defines it as the “heritage, nationality, lineage, or country of birth of the person or the person’s parents or ancestors before arriving in the United States.” 5 things we learned from two nights of Democratic debates Texas woman banned from Walmart reportedly for eating half a cake and refusing to pay Police don't know how a man escaped federal custody, but they say he soon killed a DJ Report: