"Chicana/o," "Chicanx," "Latina/o," "Latinx," and "Hispanic" are all terms you may see used to describe Americans of Central or South American descent, and they all have slightly different meanings. Here are some resources for understanding the terms and debate surrounding them. *Please note that the language used on this guide reflects the language of the relevant resource.*
25.7% The share of children (under the age of 18) who were of Hispanic origin as of April 1, 2020, up from 23.1% in 2010.
38.8% The percentage of the total voting-age Hispanic population that voted in the November 2020 election.
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Statistical profiles and trends of the Latino population based on the Pew Hispanic Center tabulations.
A useful tool for investigating U.S. demographic trends presented as graphics and maps designed by the Social Science Data Analysis Network at U of Michigan.
Topics and studies in Latino demographics.
Provides data resources for the comparative analysis of issues affecting racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States.
Born as an extension of the Mexican Migration Project (MMP), which was created in 1982 by an interdisciplinary team of researchers to advance our understanding of the complex processes of international migration and immigration to the United States. Data from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Peru, Haiti and Colombia are available, and can be downloaded from this website.
Revised in 2006 to now include 37,339 data series on population (including vital statistics, immigration and emigration), work and welfare (including labor, slavery, education, health, economic inequality and poverty, social insurance and public assistance), economic structure and performance, business cycles, prices, etc.. This database allows the use to download tables in Excel or in comma-separated values format. It also allows entire groups of tables to be downloaded as a zip file.
Selected section links to websites of Hispanic/Latino newspapers published across the United States.
The foremost Latino voice in public media and the longest running Latino-focused program on U.S. public radio.
A cooperative digital library for newspapers resources from the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. CNDL provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean newspapers, gazettes, and other research materials on newsprint currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections. CNDL will have on-going newspaper digitization, expanding the geographic, temporal,
CRL has hundreds of historical newspapers available through their catalog. Search under "Newspapers".
The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s.