{"id":29203,"date":"2013-02-26T02:26:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T02:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29203"},"modified":"2022-04-01T16:35:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T16:35:36","slug":"us-stopping-use-of-term-negro-for-census-surveys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29203","title":{"rendered":"US stopping use of term &#8216;Negro&#8217; for census surveys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/us-stopping-use-term-negro-census-surveys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US stopping use of term &#8216;Negro&#8217; for census surveys<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ap.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Associated Press<\/a><br \/>\n2013-02-25<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hope Yen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 After more than a century, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Census Bureau<\/a> is dropping its use of the word &#8220;Negro&#8221; to describe black Americans in surveys.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of the term that came into use during the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4781\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Crow<\/a> era of racial segregation, census forms will use the more modern labels &#8220;black&#8221; or &#8220;African-American&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The change will take effect next year when the Census Bureau distributes its annual American Community Survey to more than 3.5 million U.S. households, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/releases\/archives\/bios\/nicholas_jones_bio.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicholas Jones<\/a>, chief of the bureau&#8217;s racial statistics branch, said in an interview&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/us-stopping-use-term-negro-census-surveys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US stopping use of term &#8216;Negro&#8217; for census surveys The Associated Press 2013-02-25 Hope Yen WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 After more than a century, the Census Bureau is dropping its use of the word &#8220;Negro&#8221; to describe black Americans in surveys. Instead of the term that came into use during the Jim Crow era of racial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,20],"tags":[2822,3063,5709,5744,8569],"class_list":["post-29203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-associated-press","tag-hope-yen","tag-nicholas-a-jones","tag-nicholas-jones","tag-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29203","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=29203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63644,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29203\/revisions\/63644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}