Identity By Lillian Comas-Diaz Summary

Identity is an ongoing problem around the world. The author, Lillian Comas-Diaz argues that the United States has a name for its fast growing minority ethnic group but they are in search of it. The citizens of the United States can be identified as Latinos by classifications such as their ancestry, country of birth, nationality group, or also the person’s ancestors or parents before their arrival in the United States Latinos are being classified as names that are considered inaccurate. People in the group may be of any race and can often have mixed- race ancestry. They do not really describe themselves of their real identity. For example, “Many millions of Spanish-speaking people—such as Native Americans—are not of true Spanish descent,