{"id":20302,"date":"2012-01-31T21:42:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T21:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20302"},"modified":"2015-10-01T02:07:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T02:07:16","slug":"ap-exclusive-many-resist-census-race-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20302","title":{"rendered":"AP Exclusive: Many resist census race labels"},"content":{"rendered":"

AP Exclusive: Many resist census race labels<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Miami Herald<\/a>
\n2012-01-31<\/p>\n

Hope Yen<\/strong>, Associated Press<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON — When the 2010 census asked people to classify themselves by race, more than 21.7 million – at least 1 in 14 – went beyond the standard labels and wrote in such terms as “Arab,” “Haitian,” “Mexican” and “multiracial.”<\/p>\n

The unpublished data, the broadest tally to date of such write-in responses, are a sign of a diversifying America that’s wrestling with changing notions of race.<\/p>\n

The figures show most of the write-in respondents are multiracial Americans or Hispanics, many of whom don’t believe they fit within the four government-defined categories of race: white, black, Asian\/Pacific Islander or American Indian\/Alaska Native. Because Hispanic is defined as an ethnicity and not a race, some 18 million Latinos used the “some other race” category to establish a Hispanic racial identity.<\/p>\n

“I have my Mexican experience, my white experience but I also have a third identity if you will that transcends the two, a mixed experience,” said Thomas Lopez, 39, a write-in respondent from Los Angeles. “For some multiracial Americans, it is not simply being two things, but an understanding and appreciation of what it means to be mixed.”<\/p>\n

Lopez, 39, the son of a Mexican-American father and a German-Polish mother, has been checking multiple race boxes since the Census Bureau first offered the option in 2000. Marking off the categories of Hispanic-Mexican ethnicity, “other” Hispanic ethnicity and a non-Hispanic white race, Lopez opted in 2010 to go even further. He checked “some other race” and scribbled in a response: “multiracial.”…<\/p>\n

…Roderick Harrison<\/a>, a Howard University sociologist and former chief of racial statistics at the Census Bureau, predicted a wider range of responses and blurring of racial categories over the next 50 years as interracial marriage becomes increasingly common. Still, he said racial categories will continue to be relevant so long as racial gaps persist in educational attainment, income, jobs and housing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“These histories of exclusion, discrimination, and racism are central to the identities of several minority populations,”<\/strong> he said.<\/p>\n

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