Hispanic Heritage Month At Home Resources

Terminology:

While the term Hispanic typically refers to people from a Spanish-speaking background and Latino or Latinx describes people with ancestry from Latin America, the geographical region of Romance-language speaking countries, these terms are a point of discussion within the communities they are describing.

For more on this, we recommend these resources:

• Read: A student from the University of California shares his thinking in the article “What’s the right word: Hispanic, Latino, and Latinx?”
• Watch: This Buzzfeed Video is “Talking Labels: Latino or Hispanic"
• Read: An interview with UC Berkeley sociologist G. Cristina Mora about her book “Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New America”

• Enjoy: A mini-comic “I’m Latino. I’m Hispanic. And they’re different, so I drew a comic to explain.