Kurzbeschreibung
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Jennifer Lopez, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Christina Milian, Sara Paxton, Eva Mendes, Estela Ruiz, Vanessa Marcil, Ana Ortiz, Elizabeth Peña, Lori Piestewa, Eva LaRue, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Candi Milo, Natalia Livingston, Olivia, Shayne Lamas, Josie Loren, Francia Raisa, Virginia "Ginny" Montes, Rachel McLish, Jacqueline Obradors, Margarita López, Natalie Martinez, Jennifer Martínez, Génesis Rodríguez, Mayteana Morales. Excerpt: Hispanic and Latino Americans are Americans with origins in the Hispanic countries of Latin America or in Spain, and in general all persons in the United States who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino. Reflecting especially the Latin American population, which has origins in all the continents and many ancestries, Hispanic/Latino Americans are very racially diverse, and as a result form an ethnic category, rather than a race. The choice of name is associated with location: Hispanic and Latino Americans who reside in the eastern United States tend to prefer the term Hispanic, whereas those in the west usually prefer Latino. Hispanics and Latinos constitute 16.3% of the total United States population, or 50.5 million people, forming the second largest ethnic group, after non-Hispanic White Americans (a group composed of dozens of sub-groups, as is Hispanic and Latino Americans). Hispanic and Latino Americans are the largest of all the minority groups, but Black Americans are the largest minority among the races, after White Americans in general (non-Hispanic and Hispanic). Mexican Americans, Cuban Americans, Colombian Americans, Dominican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Spanish Americans, and Salvadoran Americans are some of the Hispanic and Latino American national origin groups. There have been people of Hispanic or Latino heritage in the territory of the present-day United States continuously si...