Latino Attitudes Toward Blacks, Asians, and Whites

Though oudated data (from 1990), there is nothing surprising about the attitudes of three different Latino groups toward other racial groups. Cuban-Americans largely self-identify as "white" and therefore their higher numbers for Asians over Blacks and whites over Asians is no surprise. Puerto Ricans in the US include more people of African descent and live in or work with African-Americans more often than Mexicans and Cubans, thus their preference of Blacks over Asians is not too surprising. Perhaps because many Puerto Ricans in this 1990 survey included "white Puerto Ricans," and broader normative whiteness in the US, whites are still on the receiving end of more favorable attitudes from Puerto Ricans than both Blacks and Asians. Mexicans prefer whites almost as much as Cubans but still reported more favorable attitudes of Blacks over Asians.