{"id":25199,"date":"2012-09-05T02:23:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T02:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25199"},"modified":"2013-05-27T02:33:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T02:33:32","slug":"latinos-may-get-own-race-category-on-census-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25199","title":{"rendered":"Latinos may get own race category on census form"},"content":{"rendered":"

Latinos may get own race category on census form<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Seattle Times<\/a>
\n2012-08-30<\/p>\n

Lornet Turnbull<\/a><\/strong>, Staff Reporter<\/p>\n

Under proposed changes under consideration by the Census Bureau in its once-a-decade census forms, Latino and Hispanic would be added to the list of government-defined races, rather than being listed separately as an ethnicity. And people from the Middle East and North Africa, now counted as white, would be allowed to write in their country of origin.<\/p>\n

U.S. residents of Spanish origin typically have no trouble checking the box on their census form that asks whether they are Latino, Hispanic or Spanish.<\/p>\n

It’s a different question \u2014 the one that asks their race \u2014 that apparently gives some of them pause.<\/p>\n

In the 2010 census, well over one-third \u2014 perhaps unsure how to answer that question \u2014 either checked “some other race” or skipped the question entirely.<\/p>\n

Now, in advance of the 2020 count and as part of its ongoing effort to allow Americans to better reflect how they see themselves, the U.S. Census Bureau is researching ways to clear up the confusion by adding Latino or Hispanic to a list of government-defined race categories that includes White, Asian, Pacific Islander, Black and American Indian, along with a “two or more races” option…<\/p>\n

…Luis Fraga<\/a>, a political-science professor at the University of Washington who directs its Diversity Research Institute, said, “identifying ourselves by racial grouping is at the very core of who we are as a nation and how we understand political power.”<\/p>\n

Results from the decennial survey not only help direct more than $400 billion in federal funds are distributed each year, but they also help evaluate how well government policies are responding to historical disparities among various racial and ethnic groups.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“As much as we hope we become a country where these racial distinctions don’t matter \u2014 and that’s a worthy goal \u2014 it is central to how we understand ourselves as a people and how we decide who has opportunity, rights, privileges and protection under the law<\/strong>,” Fraga said…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Latinos may get own race category on census form The Seattle Times 2012-08-30 Lornet Turnbull, Staff Reporter Under proposed changes under consideration by the Census Bureau in its once-a-decade census forms, Latino and Hispanic would be added to the list of government-defined races, rather than being listed separately as an ethnicity. And people from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,14646,8,20],"tags":[5410,11747,11749,11750,11748,9872,5408],"class_list":["post-25199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-lornet-turnbull","tag-luis-fraga","tag-miyoko-wolf","tag-rita-zawaideh","tag-samer-araabi","tag-seattle-times","tag-the-seattle-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25199","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=25199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}