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Latino-Americans: 500 years of history

This grant, cosponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association, provides for events, displays and materials detailing the Latin presence in the New World over the last five centuries.events

Facts about Latino American culture

Latino Americans & Higher Education

Hispanic student enrollment in university and college systems (2012-2013)

Rank University system Hispanic enrollment  % of student body
1 California Community College System 642,045 41%
2 California State University 149,137 33%
3 Florida College System 118,821 26%
4 University of Texas System 84,086 39%
5 State University System of Florida 79,931 24%
6 City University of New York 77,341 30%
7 State University of New York 43,514 9%
8 University of California 42,604 18%
9 Texas A&M University System 27,165 25%
10 Nevada System of Higher Education 21,467 21%
- Ivy League 11,562 10%

 

Hispanic and Latino Americans. (2015). Retrieved from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans

Nations represented in Latino American culture

United States of America 1830

 

The United States, 1830
Dixon Ryan Fox, Harper’s Atlas of American History (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers , 1920)
Downloaded from Maps ETC, on the web at http://etc.usf.edu/maps [map #03303]

Last Updated: Aug 27, 2020 12:28 PM
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Facts from the 2010 U.S. Census

  • Definition of Hispanic or Latino Origin Used in the 2010 Census:  "Hispanic or Latino" refers to a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race.
  • More than half of the growth in the total population of the United States between 2000 and 2010 was due to the increase in the Hispanic population.
  • About three-quarters of Hispanics reported as Mexican, Puerto Rican, or Cuban origin.
  • Over half of the Hispanic population in the United States resided in just three states: California, Texas, and Florida.
  • Salvadorans were the largest Hispanic group in the nation’s capital.

Ennis, S., Rios-Vargas, N.,  & Albert, N.  (2011, May). The Hispanic Population: 2010 . Retrieved from United States Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-04.pdf