>Hispanic is not a racial category.
> Your definition of race
>is not fitting if it
>includes Hispanic as a race.
> Hispanic means that a
>person is from a Spanish-speaking
>culture. Spain, Mexico, Cuba,
>Dom. Rep., Peru, Venezuela...

I know that. The US Census includes two categories: white Hispanic and black Hispanic. There are numerous Latino/Hispanic groups who fight for "Latino interests". This isn't about whether you or I consider Latino/Hispanic a racial group. They are considered a racial group, period.

>You've just included "racial" whites, blacks,
>mulattos, mestizos, Amerindians, Indians, Asians,
>(more?) all as one race
>based on a similar colonial
>history. Hispanic doesn't fit
>*my* definition of race.
>If it fits yours, we
>gotta talk.

It's not me making up the definitions. I think the problem with much of this discussion is people are making up their own definitions...stating that, for example, black is more than a race because of the nationalist overtones around the category...this of course casually overlooks the fact that "white" as a category has nationalist overtones as well. None of these groupings are strictly biological, but they all have some biological basis (general groupings based upon skin color, hair texture, and facial structure).

Latinos/Hispanics as a group have more than just colonial history in common, btw, the way it is defined, for example, Japanese/Peruvians would be seen as having a mixed racial heritage whereas someone with an African/native/Spaniard heritage would be seen as Latino/Hispanic. A lot of this has to do with distinctions in physical characteristics (distinguishing Japanese/Peruvians from the majority of Peruvians due to distinctions in physical appearance).

Latino/Hispanic IS a recognized racial group, however. By the US Census, on birth certificates, by anyone doing medical research about racial disparities of the impact of certain diseases (for example, when reviewing the rates of skin cancer amongst various racial groups, Latinos/Hispanics would be a distinct group).

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