{"id":8459,"date":"2022-05-02T09:59:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T14:59:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-04-23T23:55:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:55:59","slug":"about-6-million-u-s-adults-identify-as-afro-latino","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2022\/05\/02\/about-6-million-u-s-adults-identify-as-afro-latino\/","title":{"rendered":"About 6 million U.S. adults identify as Afro-Latino"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Afro-Latino identity is a distinct one, with deep roots in colonial Latin America. As a result, it can often exist alongside a person\u2019s Hispanic, racial or national origin identities. The life experiences of Afro-Latinos are shaped by race, skin tone and other factors, in ways that differ from other Hispanics. And though most Afro-Latinos identify as Hispanic or Latino, not all do so, according to new Pew Research Center estimates based on a survey of U.S. adults conducted from November 2019 to June 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2020, there were about 6 million Afro-Latino adults in the United States, and they made up about 2% of the U.S. adult population and 12% of the adult Latino population. About one-in-seven Afro-Latinos \u2013 or an estimated 800,000 adults \u2013 do not identify as Hispanic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The multiple dimensions of Latino identity reflect the long colonial history of Latin America, during which mixing occurred among indigenous Americans, White Europeans, Asians and enslaved people from Africa. In Latin America\u2019s colonial period, about 15 times as many<\/a> African slaves were taken to Spanish and Portuguese colonies than to the U.S. About 130 million people of African descent live in Latin America, and they make up roughly a quarter of the region\u2019s total population, according to recent estimates from the Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA<\/a>) at Princeton University.<\/p>\n\n\n

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