{"id":27561,"date":"2013-01-14T18:08:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T18:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27561"},"modified":"2016-01-25T19:40:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T19:40:32","slug":"census-race-change-for-hispanics-sparks-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27561","title":{"rendered":"Census Race Change For Hispanics Sparks Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/01\/09\/census-race-change-for-hispanics-criticism_n_2439617.html\" target=\"_blank\">Census Race Change For Hispanics Sparks Criticism<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2013-01-09<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tony Castro<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some Latino civil rights groups are questioning the U.S. Census consideration of designating Hispanics a race of their own, fearing the loss of national original designations.<\/p>\n<p>The change, making \u201cHispanic\u201d a racial instead of an ethnic category, would eliminate the check-off boxes for national origins such as Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rican.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no unanimity on what any of this stuff means,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sipa.columbia.edu\/academics\/directory\/amf71-fac.html\" target=\"_blank\">Angelo Falc\u00f3n<\/a>, director of the National Institute for Latino Policy and co-chair of a coalition of Latino advocacy groups that recently met with Census officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, we\u2019re very comfortable with having the Hispanic (origin) question\u2026 Hispanic as a race category? I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any consensus on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scholars oppose \u201cHispanic\u201d being considered a race<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fordham University law professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/info\/23144\/tanya_hernandez\" target=\"_blank\">Tanya Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a>, author of the new book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=27563\" target=\"_blank\">Racial Subordination in Latin America<\/a><\/em>, is among the scholars opposing the proposal to join race and ethnicity as a \u201cHispanic\u201d category.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCensus data is used in very important ways, for example to monitor compliance regarding civil rights and racial disparities,\u201d says Hernandez, who fears that eliminating existing racial categories would have a negative impact&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/01\/09\/census-race-change-for-hispanics-criticism_n_2439617.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Census Race Change For Hispanics Sparks Criticism The Huffington Post 2013-01-09 Tony Castro Some Latino civil rights groups are questioning the U.S. Census consideration of designating Hispanics a race of their own, fearing the loss of national original designations. The change, making \u201cHispanic\u201d a racial instead of an ethnic category, would eliminate the check-off boxes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,14646,1467,8,26,20],"tags":[13375,10108,2113,5161,2112,2425,13374,13376],"class_list":["post-27561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-latino","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-angelo-falcon","tag-huffington-post","tag-tanya-hernandez","tag-tanya-k-hernandez","tag-tanya-kateri-hernandez","tag-the-huffington-post","tag-tony-castro","tag-v"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27561","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=27561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45363,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27561\/revisions\/45363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}