From Zocalo Public Square:
Jennifer Lee, Author of Civility in the City and University of California, Irvine sociologist.  Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American by G. Cristina Mora…. Mora deftly explains how the “Hispanic” category emerged as a result of institutional actors such as political activists, Spanish-language media, and the U.S. Census Bureau, who recognized the advantages of amalgamating diverse national origin groups into a broad pan-ethnic label.

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