Proud Latinos on Twitter Are Showing the Media What They Really Look Like
*This has been very interesting to follow. Sparked by a New York Times article about a Pew study that found Latinos are increasingly identifying as “white,” and how this fact has political implications, an increasingly growing movement is asserting “Latinoness” across the internet. The article, by Nate Cohn, drew some predicable, but wrongheaded conclusions: Latinos identify as “white” because of education and assimilation – the usual clueless mainstream media feed. This is a very cool grass-roots reaction to that. Here’s the hashtag, if you want to join-in: #ThisIsWhatLatinosLookLike. VL
By Zak Cheney-Rice, PolicyMic
The news: The concept of race is as crude as it is malleable.
So when the New York Times started telling people that more Hispanics are identifying as “white” — without asking any Hispanics, no less — reactions were mixed.
Some took issue with the sweeping claim. Others were put off by its cheery tone. Many responded via social media, using the hashtag #ThisIsWhatLatinosLookLike to showcase the diversity and pride of this growing population:
They aimed to prove once and for all that an idea as complex as racial identity can’t always be conveyed in a census box — and that plenty of Hispanics are (surprise!) perfectly fine not being white, thank you.
Here’s what they posted:
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