Still More on Antedating of "Hispanic"

[victor steinbok]

This citation is particularly edgy or touchy because New Mexico is the
epicenter of the internal disputes as to who qualifies as Hispanic or
Latino. Many "mixed ethnicity" groups often state that families that
are direct "unmixed" descendants of Spanish immigrants do not qualify
under one or both categories. Most of the dispute is in New Mexico,
although there are some families in other Southwestern states. This is
made even more complicated by the fact that many of these families
originally descended from the Marranos, so are actually Semitic not
Hispanic. ;-) I wonder what Winnie had to say on the subject.

VS-)

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> Perhaps this is an earlier example of the new meaning of the adjective "Hispanic":
>
> 1955 William Winnie, Jr.  (title of Masters thesis, University of Florida) The Hispanic people of New Mexico.
>
> Fred Shapiro

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