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Report: About 6M adults identify as Afro Latino in the U.S.

By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY identify as such, much
and ANITA SNOW lower than the 6 million es-
Associated Press timated in the latest center
About 6 million adults in report.
the United States identify “The thing to consider here
as Afro Latino, a distinction is that Afro Latino identity
with deep roots in colonial transcends racial identity
Latin America, according and cannot be captured
to a new report by Pew by a checkbox-type of
Research Center. That’s question where you mark
about 2% of the adult U.S. your ethnicity,” said Gon-
population and 12% of the zalez-Barrera, who has
country’s adult Latino pop- studied Latinos for about 15
ulation. years and has worked with
The center released its lat- Pew Research Center for
est report on Afro Latino about 12 years. She identi-
identity Monday, revealing fies as Mexican American
the multiple dimensions of and Latina.
Latino identity. The survey asked a census-
Afro Latinos’ life experienc- style question about race
es are shaped by factors in- to display the complexity of
cluding race and skin tone identity. Twenty-eight per-
in ways that differ from cent of all Afro Latino peo-
other Hispanics. Most but A group calling for the end of deportations marches in the Dominican Day Parade, Sunday, Aug. ple selected white as their
not all identify as Hispanic 13, 2017, in New York. - A group calling for the end of deportations marches in the Dominican Day race, 25% selected Black
Parade, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017, in New York.
or Latino, the survey found. Associated Press and 23% selected “some
Being Afro Latino is “distinct other race.” According to
and exists along a person’s the Puerto Rican ancestry Spanish to her 5-month-old baseball player David Or- the report, 59% of Afro La-
racial identity, national ori- from her mother’s side. baby girl, Flora. “I want her tiz, a Dominican American tino people who did not
gin and includes or is tied to “I identify mostly as Black, to have that as well.” nicknamed “Big Papi.” identify as Hispanic se-
culture, ancestry and may- but I also feel close to the A previous survey published Many Hispanic people lected Black as their race,
be also physical features,” island,” said Dunmore, in 2016 showed about one- identify themselves based compared to the 17% who
said researcher and report who was born and raised quarter of all U.S. Latinos on their ancestral countries did identify as Hispanic.
author Ana Gonzalez-Bar- in Brooklyn, New York, but self-identify as Afro Latino, of origin, their Indigenous A March 2021 Pew Re-
rera. “But it is much more moved with her family to Afro Caribbean or of Afri- roots or racial background. search Center survey of
than just a label and much Arizona as a high school can descent with roots in The survey asked adults Latino adults said Afro La-
more than just a race.” student after 9/11. She was Latin America. But Gonza- whether they self-identify tino adults who identify as
The report’s results reflect excited to discover a res- lez-Barrera said the results as Afro Latino separate Hispanic were more likely
Latin America’s long colo- taurant near her Southwest cannot be compared to from other questions on to say they would be seen
nial history, during which home that serves mofongo, the more recent report be- race or ethnicity. as multiracial, mixed race
mixing occurred among In- a traditional Puerto Rican cause the previous survey As a result, the number also or Black when walking
digenous Americans, white dish made with fried plan- was conducted over the varies from U.S. Census Bu- past them on the street, a
Europeans, Asians and en- tains. phone, with an interviewer, reau sources, which count concept known as street
slaved people from Africa. “Outside of class, I grew and the questions were dif- Afro Latino as anyone who race. It also said Afro La-
Melissa Dunmore, 32, a up mostly speaking Span- ferent. identifies as Hispanic and tino adults who identify as
writer and poet living in ish after school and during Well-known Afro Latinos in Black in a two-step race Hispanic were more likely
Phoenix, said she embrac- the summer with my ma- the U.S. include actress Ro- question. The 2020 cen- to say their skin color is
es both her father’s African ternal grandparents,” said sario Dawson, rapper Cardi sus show there are 1.2 mil- darker than other Hispanic
and Cherokee roots and Dunmore. Now she speaks B and former professional lion people of all ages that adults.q

CDC restates recommendation for

masks on planes, trains

By MIKE STOBBE ports and train stations, the May 3. But a federal judge
AP Medical Writer Centers for Disease Control in Florida struck down the
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. and Prevention recom- rule on April 18. The same
health officials on Tues- mended, citing the current day, the TSA said it would
day restated their recom- spread of coronavirus and no longer enforce the
mendation that Americans projections of future CO- mandate.
wear masks on planes, VID-19 trends. The CDC asked the Justice
trains and buses, despite For months, the Transporta- Department to appeal the
a court ruling last month tion Security Administration decision, which the de-
that struck down a national had been enforcing a re- partment did. On Tuesday,
mask mandate on public quirement that passengers CDC officials declined to
transportation. and workers wear masks. comment on the status
City residents wait in a line extending around the block to Americans age 2 and older The government had re- of the appeal. DOJ offi-
receive free at-home rapid COVID-19 test kits in Philadelphia, should wear a well-fitting peatedly extended the cials did not immediately
Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. masks while on public trans- mandate, and the latest respond to a request for
Associated Press
portation, including in air- one had been set to expire information.q