{"id":19826,"date":"2012-01-14T04:49:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T04:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=19826"},"modified":"2015-02-18T02:53:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T02:53:12","slug":"19826","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=19826","title":{"rendered":"For Many Latinos, Racial Identity Is More Culture Than Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/pix04.revsci.net\/H07707\/b3\/0\/3\/0806180\/454827730.js?D=DM_LOC%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.mixedracestudies.org%252Fwordpress%252Fwp-admin%252Fpost.php%253Fpost%253D19826%2526action%253Dedit%2526message%253D1%26DM_CAT%3DNYTimesglobal%2520%253E%2520General%26DM_EOM%3D1&amp;C=H07707\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/14\/us\/for-many-latinos-race-is-more-culture-than-color.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">For Many Latinos, Racial Identity Is More Culture Than Color<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2012-01-13<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mireyanavarro.com\/?page_id=2\" target=\"_blank\">Mireya Navarro<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every decade, the Census Bureau spends billions of dollars and deploys hundreds of thousands of workers to get an accurate portrait of the American population. Among the questions on the census form is one about race, with 15 choices, including \u201csome other race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than 18 million Latinos checked this \u201cother\u201d box in the 2010 census, up from 14.9 million in 2000. It was an indicator of the sharp disconnect between how Latinos view themselves and how the government wants to count them. <strong>Many Latinos argue that the country\u2019s race categories\u2014indeed, the government\u2019s very conception of identity \u2014 do not fit them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The main reason for the split is that the census categorizes people by race, which typically refers to a set of common physical traits. But Latinos, as a group in this country, tend to identify themselves more by their ethnicity, meaning a shared set of cultural traits, like language or customs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;A majority of Latinos identify themselves as white. Among them is Fiordaliza A. Rodriguez, 40, a New York lawyer who says she considers herself white because \u201cI am light-skinned\u201d and that is how she is viewed in her native Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>But she says there is no question that she is seen as different from the white majority in this country. Ms. Rodriguez recalled an occasion in a courtroom when a white lawyer assumed she was the court interpreter. She surmised the confusion had to do with ethnic stereotyping, \u201cno matter how well you\u2019re dressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some of the latest research, however, shows that many Latinos\u2014like Irish and Italian immigrants before them\u2014drop the Latino label to call themselves simply \u201cwhite.\u201d<\/strong> A study published last year in the <em>Journal of Labor Economics<\/em> found that the parents of more than a quarter of third-generation children with Mexican ancestry do not identify their children as Latino on census forms.<\/p>\n<p>Most of this ethnic attrition occurs among the offspring of parents or grandparents married to non-Mexicans, usually non-Hispanic whites. These Latinos tend to have high education, high earnings and high levels of English fluency. That means that many successful Latinos are no longer present in statistics tracking Latino economic and social progress across generations, hence many studies showing little or no progress for third-generation Mexican immigrants, said Stephen J. Trejo, an economist at the University of Texas at Austin and co-author of the study&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;On the other side of the spectrum are black Latinos, who say they feel the sting of racism much the same as other blacks. <strong>A sense of racial pride has been emerging among many black Latinos who are now coming together in conferences and organizations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nul.org\/2010conference\/bio\/miriam-jimenez-roman-0\" target=\"_blank\">Miriam Jim\u00e9nez Rom\u00e1n<\/a>, 60, a scholar on race and ethnicity in New York, says that issues like racial profiling of indigenous-looking and dark-skinned Latinos led her to appear in a 30-second <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UDLJR4DFZVc\" target=\"_blank\">public service announcement<\/a> before the 2010 census encouraging Latinos of African descent to \u201ccheck both: Latino and black.\u201d \u201cWhen you sit on the subway, you just see a black person, and that\u2019s really what determines the treatment,\u201d she said. The 2010 census showed 1.2 million Latinos who identified as black, or 2.5 percent of the Hispanic population&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/14\/us\/for-many-latinos-race-is-more-culture-than-color.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Many Latinos, Racial Identity Is More Culture Than Color The New York Times 2012-01-13 Mireya Navarro Every decade, the Census Bureau spends billions of dollars and deploys hundreds of thousands of workers to get an accurate portrait of the American population. Among the questions on the census form is one about race, with 15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,125,14646,8,394,20],"tags":[704,4015,5219,9060,9059,9061,2640,6532,9222,9223,2327],"class_list":["post-19826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-identitydevelopment","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-mary-c-waters","tag-mary-waters","tag-mireya-navarro","tag-miriam-j-roman","tag-miriam-jimenez-roman","tag-miriam-roman","tag-new-york-times","tag-race-remixed","tag-stephen-j-trejo","tag-stephen-trejo","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19826","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=19826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}