{"id":13180,"date":"2011-04-08T21:55:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T21:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13180"},"modified":"2011-08-08T05:14:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T05:14:20","slug":"for-some-question-of-race-a-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13180","title":{"rendered":"For some, question of race a struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projo.com\/news\/content\/MULTIRACIAL_CENSUS_2010_04-05-11_VGN92J9_v53.38ff572.html\" target=\"_blank\">For some, question of race a struggle<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projo.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Providence Journal<\/a><br \/>\nProvidence, Rhode Island<br \/>\n2011-04-05<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:kziner@projo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Karen Lee Ziner<\/a><\/strong>, Journal Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>Face to face with the question of racial identity, Providence lawyer Kas R. DeCarvalho chose a write-in option under \u201cOther\u201d in the 2010 census form.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI put in mixed and called it a day,\u201d said DeCarvalho, whose father is from Angola in southwest Africa, and whose mother is an American of Scottish-Irish descent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been my entire life, something of a struggle to figure out exactly what to do,\u201d DeCarvalho said. \u201cOnly in recent years have any sorts of government forms offered an option, mixed race. Until then, you had to pick one or the other, or neither.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cI could have put white, and I suppose I could have [also] filled in black. I identify as a black American. That\u2019s how I\u2019m perceived but, culturally, I\u2019m much more complicated than that. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s really a way to encapsulate that in some sort of census document.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeCarvalho is one of 9 million people, or 2.9 percent of the population, who selected or indicated more than one race on their 2010 Census forms, a roughly 32-percent increase since 2000. <a href=\"http:\/\/2010.census.gov\/news\/releases\/operations\/cb11-cn110.html\" target=\"_blank\">Some 3.3 percent of Rhode Islanders did so<\/a>, slightly above the national average. He said, \u201cI wish we lived in a world where we didn\u2019t have to fill in anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeCarvalho isn\u2019t alone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projo.com\/news\/content\/MULTIRACIAL_CENSUS_2010_04-05-11_VGN92J9_v53.38ff572.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some, question of race a struggle The Providence Journal Providence, Rhode Island 2011-04-05 Karen Lee Ziner, Journal Staff Writer Face to face with the question of racial identity, Providence lawyer Kas R. DeCarvalho chose a write-in option under \u201cOther\u201d in the 2010 census form. \u201cI put in mixed and called it a day,\u201d said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,6,20],"tags":[5946,5945,5568,4077],"class_list":["post-13180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-new-media","category-usa","tag-karen-l-ziner","tag-karen-lee-ziner","tag-rhode-island","tag-the-providence-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}