This week’s Experiment is a personal one. It steps into a bit of a minefield: the “Hispanic/Latino/Spanish origin” category in the U.S. census [THREAD] #TheExperimentPodcast @TheAtlantic @WNYC How did we start using “Hispanic” and “Latino” to refer to millions of Americans? To answer this question, I called Professor @GCristinaMora. She wrote an entire book about how activists, bureaucrats, and TV stations created this category in the 1960s:
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