{"id":26583,"date":"2012-11-21T19:30:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T19:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26583"},"modified":"2017-02-10T16:39:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T16:39:49","slug":"bolivias-census-omits-mestizo-as-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26583","title":{"rendered":"Bolivia&#8217;s Census Omits &#8216;Mestizo&#8217; as Category"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2012\/11\/21\/world\/americas\/ap-lt-bolivia-census.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bolivia&#8217;s Census Omits &#8216;Mestizo&#8217; as Category<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2012-11-21<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bolivia\" target=\"_blank\">Bolivia<\/a> is under a virtual curfew as census-takers count and classify the landlocked Andean nation&#8217;s population in its first census in 11 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stirring controversy was the government decision not to include &#8220;mestizo&#8221; as a category of ethnicity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People have the option of declaring themselves members of one of 40 ethnic groups, including Afro-Bolivians. <strong>But &#8220;mestizo,&#8221; or mixed-race, is not an option.<\/strong> Critics of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evo_Morales\" target=\"_blank\">President Evo Morales<\/a> say he is afraid people won&#8217;t identify themselves with a particular indigenous group, thus delegitimizing the government&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2012\/11\/21\/world\/americas\/ap-lt-bolivia-census.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bolivia&#8217;s Census Omits &#8216;Mestizo&#8217; as Category The New York Times 2012-11-21 The Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) \u2014 Bolivia is under a virtual curfew as census-takers count and classify the landlocked Andean nation&#8217;s population in its first census in 11 years. Stirring controversy was the government decision not to include &#8220;mestizo&#8221; as a category [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,33,8],"tags":[12788,2640,8569,2327],"class_list":["post-26583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-census","category-media-archive","tag-evo-morales","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-associated-press","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26583","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=26583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51486,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26583\/revisions\/51486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}