Social Identity in New Mexicans of Spanish-Speaking Descent Highlights Limitations of Using Standardized Ethnic Terminology in Research

Hunley, Keith; Edgar, Heather J. H.; Healy, Meghan Elisabeth; Mosley, Carmen; Cabana, Graciela S.; West, Frankie

doi:10.13110/humanbiology.89.3.04

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“…These factors make New Mexico one of the most interesting places to study Hispanic disparities in access to food in the country. This paper is the rst to examine food security among a particular understudied population, the approximately 45% of New Mexican Hispanics who identify as Hispaño (Hunley et al, 2017). This not only has implications for disaggregating food insecurity in New Mexico, but also shows the promise for evaluating the effect of skin color, language, culture, and immigration separately in other contexts.…”

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“…Federal surveys do not ask about Hispaño identity, though some local surveys in New Mexico do. Because most Hispaño-identifying people live in New Mexico (Hunley et al, 2017) and only 1% of U.S. Hispanics are of Spanish heritage (U.S. Census Bureau, 2019b), state-level surveys with a Hispaño indicator may be su cient to determine food insecurity and health patterns for this understudied Hispanic subgroup.…”

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Disparities and Determinants of Food Insecurity for New Mexico’s Unique Populations

Gutierrez

2023

J Econ Race Policy

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New Mexico, a majority-minority state, had the second-highest poverty rate in the US (19.5%) and highest rate of food insecurity (16.8%) in 2019. Its unique history means that nearly half of Hispanics in the state are from families that can trace their ancestral arrival back to the late 1500s, an understudied subgroup called Hispaños (old New Mexican families). I use the Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement for the state of New Mexico from 2000-2018 to look at food insecurity by Hispanic origin and nativity attempting to isolate Hispaño households from other Hispanic origin households. Using linear probability models, results show that foreign-and native-born Hispanics were more likely to experience food insecurity than non-Hispanic New Mexicans of any nativity. Within those groups, and Hispaños are less likely than their Mexican-origin peers to be food insecure. These results emphasize the importance of data disaggregation, and the results show promising results for further investigation into the outcomes of Hispanics with long-standing ties to an area versus those who are more recent arrivals.

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Disparities and Determinants of Food Insecurity for New Mexico’s Unique Populations

Gutierrez

2023

J Econ Race Policy

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“…Previous studies show misclassification of Hispanic-origin identity on death certificates is particularly pronounced for those who further identified as “Other,” as opposed to Mexican, Puerto Rican, or Cuban [ 5 , 11 ]. “Other” is an especially common choice on the US Census among New Mexican Hispanics [ 21 ]. For these reasons, New Mexico can help us understand the importance of regional influences in shaping errors in the assignment of race, ethnicity, manner of death, and cause of death in medicolegal systems throughout the US.…”

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