Report: Latino Demographics
- Who is Hispanic?
By: Jeffrey Passel and Paul Taylor
Organization: Pew Hispanic Center
Is Sonia Sotomayor the first Hispanic ever nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court? Or does that distinction belong to the late Justice Benjamin Cardozo, who served on the court from 1932-1938 and whose ancestors may or may not have come from Portugal? Unscrambling Cardozo’s family tree is best left to historians and genealogists.1 Here we take a stab at a more daunting question. Just who is a Hispanic? Download PDF here
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