ethnicity category Afro-Latin negro Preto Individuals who self-identify or are reported by authors as Afro-Latin. This term is possibly an outdated and offensive racial term but that is currently used by Latin American government and other institutions on official forms used to collect demographic information and is used by some communities Latin American communities to describe themselves. It should be noted that the synonyms for this term represent the commonly used Spanish and Portugese translations of the primary label.