Countries as distinct as Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, and Trinidad all define themselves as nations made up primarily of mixed-race people. What is a Creole in Latin America? In different parts of Latin America the term creole has various referents: it may denote any local-born person of pure ...
By the 1980s, the use of "Latina/o" emerged to describe the more diverse ethnic and racial fabric of people known as "Hispanic." But for some, that descriptor still falls short of inclusive, as the male/female gender binary of the Spanish language, with men calling themselves "Latino" ...