As I stated previously, Latino is a culture rather than an ethnicity.

Fair enough! Gracias.

You are right, Latino is not a race. Latinos can be and are of many races but Latinos are racialized in this country and that cannot be ignored.

This is an interesting conversation, and topic. About three
years ago, I entered a university program that was African
centered, basically the concepts we were introduced to were
not Eurocentric but were written by African scholars from
all over the world, as an invidual of Puerto Rican ethnicity
who is mixed, of course I wondered how do these concepts apply to the people of African descent in the Caribbean or
Central and South America, one concept caught my attention
it is Cheikh Anta Diop’s (African anthrolopogist) and Dr.
Caruthers ideas on worldviews; I read the works and history of Puerto Rico using these models as a lens, one particular
figure’s discourses I read were Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos’ ideas on race, and Arturo A. Schomburg’s ideas on race in the early 20th century, analysing both subjects ideas via
the lens of Diop’s two cradle theory, was enlighting. Diop
believed that every culture had a primal formative template
that was formed based on the environment where groups formed prior to Europe coming into existance, he called these groups
races as they were called prior to and in the early 20th century, in P.R. as in Cuba, Santo Domingo (read on the Haitian revolution) the worldviews and history is primarily told through a Eurocentric lens, even our own scholars abide by this in academia, although Albizu may have meant well,
and no doubt he safriced his freedom because he belived that P.R. should be free from the U.S., his ideas on race followed the trend in the 1930’s on race. Race was redefined by Spain and pushed on the masses, the AFrican and Native American was incorporated into this new neocolonial schema of race, but it was a partial story of our ancestry and
the Spanish interpretation of the African propogated through
this idea of race called “La Raza,” read the cosmic race
by Vasconcelos written in 1925, that was the formula passed on in P.R. and the places that were colonized by the Spaniards. Just a thought.