Hispanics and Latinos in New Jersey
New Jersey is home to significant number of persons of Latino Hispanic descent, representing 18.9% of the total population.[1][2][3]
Places and populations
As of the 2010 USA Census, New Jersey has several municipalities with Hispanic majority populations.[4][5][6]
Places with over 100,000 people
Places with between 25,000 and 100,000 people
- North Bergen (68.4%)
- Passaic (71.0%)
- Perth Amboy (78.1%)
- Union City (84.7%)
- West New York (78.1%)
Places with between 10,000 and 25,000 people
- Dover (69.4%)
- Fairview (54.6%)
- Guttenberg (64.8%)
Places with fewer than 10,000 people
- East Newark (61.4%)
- Prospect Park (52.1%)
- Victory Gardens (63.0%)
Center for Hispanic Policy, Research and Development
The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs Center for Hispanic Policy, Research and Development is designed to empower the Hispanic community of New Jersey by administering grant dollars and providing other assistance to Hispanic community-based organizations, creating training and employment opportunities for Hispanic college interns, conducting and supporting research on New Jersey's Hispanic community, and ensuring Hispanic access to services and programs.[7]
Public office
Public officials of Latino/Hispanic descent include:
Statewide
- Bob Menendez, United States Senator[8][9][10]
- Esther Salas, federal district judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
- Faustino J. Fernandez-Vina, Associate Justice New Jersey Supreme Court
- Roberto A. Rivera-Soto, Associate Justice New Jersey Supreme Court
Hudson
Main article: Havana on the Hudson
US and State legislators
- Vincent Prieto, State Assemblyman 32nd legislative district, Speaker of Assembly
- Ruben J. Ramos, State Assemblyman, 33rd legislative district
- Caridad Rodriguez, State Assemblywoman 33rd Legislative District[11]
- Albio Sires, Member of the United States House of Representatives 13th congressional district
County and local offices
- Tilo Rivas, Freeholder District 6 [12]
- Eliu Rivera, Freeholder District 4[13]
- Jose C. Muñoz, Freeholder District 7[14][15][16]
- Al Santos, Mayor of Kearny
- Rudy Garcia-appointed mayor of Union City
- Felix Roque, Mayor of West New York
Newark
The percentage of Latinos in Newark, the states largest city grew considerably between 1980 and 2010, from 18.6% to 33.8%; that of blacks has slightly decreased from 58.2% to 52.4%. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 33.83% (93,746) r one-third of the population,[17] of which 13% of the total population was Puerto Rican.[18] While municipal elections have seen black-Latino coalitions, voting tends to remain racially polarized.[19][20][21][22]
Bergen-Passaic
See also: Little Lima
- Alex Blanco
- Jose "Joey" Torres
- Anthony R. Suarez, served as Mayor of Ridgefield, New Jersey[23]
- Julio Tavarez, Councilmember representing 5th Ward in the City of Paterson, New Jersey[24]
Perth Amboy
Union
South Jersey
Sports and arts
- Juan Pablo Ángel, professional soccer player for the New York Red Bull (Colombian-American)
- Amado Guevara, professional soccer player (Honduran American)
- Edward Fernandez, politician (Dominican-American)
- Carol-Lynn Parente, executive producer of Sesame Street (Puerto Rican-American)[25]
- Franck de Las Mercedes, visual artist (Nicaraguan American)[26]
- Tab Ramos, US national soccer team player (Uruguayan American)[27]
- Jorge Rojas, professional soccer player for the New York Red Bull (Venezuelan American)
- Pedro Sosa, professional American football player (Dominican-American)
- Paquito D'Rivera, nine-time Grammy Award–winning jazz maestro and writer (Cuban-American)
See also
References
- ↑ http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/34000.html
- ↑ http://www.pewhispanic.org/states/state/nj/
- ↑ http://lwd.dol.state.nj.us/labor/lpa/pub/lmv/LMV_7.pdf
- ↑ http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/02/census_data_shows_hispanics_as.html
- ↑ Census factinder for 2010 census retrieved 2014-07-13
- ↑ Census report on Hispanic population based on analysis of 2010 U.S. census
- ↑ http://www.state.nj.us/dca/chprd/aboutthechprd.shtml
- ↑ http://www.northjersey.com/news/in-union-city-menendez-supporters-split-over-corruption-charges-1.1302673
- ↑ "Robert Menendez, a Politician Even at 20" The New York Times, December 10, 2005
- ↑ Wayne Parry, Associated Press (via the San Francisco Chronicle), Menendez Inspires Pride in Cuban-Americans, December 8, 2005
- ↑ "Candidates for November 3, 2009 General Election". Hudson County Clerk. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
- ↑ Matthew Amato. "TILO IS GOOD MEDICINE!!!". Hudson Reporter. June 7, 2009.
- ↑ "María DeCastro Blake Community Service Award 2007 Honoree". The Newark Public Library. 2007. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
- ↑ Freeholder District 7, Hudson County, New Jersey. Accessed January 5, 2011.
- ↑
- ↑ District 7
- ↑ Suarez, Monica (November 4, 2013). "Luis Quintana sworn in as Newark's first Latino mayor". NBC Latino. Retrieved 2013-11-29.
- ↑ "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 for Newark city, Essex County, New Jersey". Census 2010. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2013-12-02.
- ↑ Perry, Ravi K (editor); Gillepsie, Andra (2013), "Beyond Booker: Assissing the Prospect of Black and Latino Mayoral Candidates in Newark, New Jersey", 21st Century Urban Race Politics: Representing Minorities As Universal Interests, Emerald Group Publishing
- ↑ Gillespie, Andra (2012), The New Black Politician: Cory Booker, Newark, and Post-Racial America, New York University Press, ISBN 978-0814732441
- ↑ Giambusso, David (September 22, 2013). "With Newark council president vote, Ras Baraka could win Latino support". The Star-Ledger. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
- ↑ Wharton, Jonathon L. (2013). A Post-Racial Change Is Gonna Come Newark, Cory Booker, and the Transformation of Urban America. Palgrave MacMilan. ISBN 978-1-137-27771-8. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
- ↑ Llorente, Elizabeth (October 7, 2013). "In One New Jersey Town, Latinos Dominate Council, Bucking National Trend". Fox News Latino. Retrieved 2013-11-11.
- ↑ Archived February 18, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Rohan, Virginia. "Former fan now in charge of 'Sesame Street'", The Record (Bergen County), August 13, 2007. Accessed August 13, 2007.
- ↑ Levine, Daniel Rome. "Triunfador Franck de Las Mercedes", ABC News, August 16, 2007. Accessed August 18, 2008. "Standing in the middle of his one-bedroom loft apartment in an industrial part of Weehawken, N.J., the 34-year-old abstract painter covers a small brown cardboard box in white acrylic paint and then carefully drips red and hot pink paint on it."
- ↑ Mifflin, Lawrie. "Doing a Star Turn for the Home Team, at Last", The New York Times, August 18, 1996. Accessed January 7, 2008. He now lives in Holmdel, New Jersey with his children Alex (12) and Kristen (10) And he is just a few miles from where he grew up, in Harrison and Kearny, towns that have been soccer hotbeds for generations."
Further reading
- Prieto, Yolanda (2009). The Cubans of Union City: Immigrants and Exiles in a New Jersey Community. Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-59213-300-0.
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