{"id":24725,"date":"2012-08-09T22:33:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T22:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24725"},"modified":"2013-05-27T20:26:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T20:26:21","slug":"census-to-change-categories-on-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24725","title":{"rendered":"Census to Change Categories on Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/09\/us\/census-to-change-categories-on-race.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Census to Change Categories on Race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<br \/>\n2012-08-09<\/p>\n<p>The Census Bureau wants to make broad changes to its surveys to keep pace with changing notions of race. The changes would drop use of the term \u201cNegro,\u201d leaving a choice of \u201cblack\u201d or \u201cAfrican-American.\u201d It would count Hispanics as separate from blacks and whites. It would also add write-in categories that would allow Middle Easterners and Arabs to specifically identify themselves. The census director, Robert M. Groves, says research during the 2010 census found that making these changes increased response rates and improved accuracy. The government currently defines Latino as an ethnicity. Census forms now instruct people to indicate if they have Hispanic origin and then check a race box such as \u201cwhite\u201d or \u201cblack.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Census to Change Categories on Race The Associated Press 2012-08-09 The Census Bureau wants to make broad changes to its surveys to keep pace with changing notions of race. The changes would drop use of the term \u201cNegro,\u201d leaving a choice of \u201cblack\u201d or \u201cAfrican-American.\u201d It would count Hispanics as separate from blacks and whites. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,14646,6,20],"tags":[8569],"class_list":["post-24725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-latino","category-new-media","category-usa","tag-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24725","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=24725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}