More than half of Latinos think their skin color hurts their chances at social mobility and makes them a target of discrimination, a new study from the Pew Research Center shows.
The report, published Thursday, is based on a survey of more than 3,300 Hispanic adults in March of this year, and details how Latinos fit in the changing landscape of race relations in the United States.
As part of the survey, researchers noted that they used 10-tone skin color scale to learn more about the identity of the respondents. A total of 80% said they had lighter skin tones, compared to 15% who reported having the darker skin colors in the scale. "Anti-Blackness and colorism are something that has divided the Latinx communities for so long. Though we are having more and more open conversations about these pain points in our community, there are those who still tend to put Whiteness in the spotlight," Saraciea J. Fennell, a Black Honduran writer who edited and contributed to the book told CNN.
About 64% Latinos with darker skin reported that they experienced at least one of eight examples of discrimination. The incidents used in the survey included being told"to go back to your country," criticized for speaking Spanish in public, called offensive names and being treated unfairly by either a non-Hispanic person or someone who is Hispanic.
When they measured the sentiment among Latinos and how it compared to previous years, Gonzalez-Barrera said, they found there are fewer Latinos saying there's not much attention being paid to race and racial issues nationwide.
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