{"id":33682,"date":"2013-09-17T02:07:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T02:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33682"},"modified":"2013-09-17T02:13:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T02:13:32","slug":"esther-j-cepeda-debate-grows-over-hispanics-and-the-2020-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33682","title":{"rendered":"Esther J. Cepeda: Debate grows over Hispanics and the 2020 Census"},"content":{"rendered":"

Esther J. Cepeda: Debate grows over Hispanics and the 2020 Census<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

San Jose Mercury News<\/a>
\nSan Jose, California
\n2013-09-07<\/p>\n

Esther J. Cepeda<\/a><\/strong>, Columnist
\nThe Washington Post<\/em><\/p>\n

CHICAGO\u2014A debate is raging about whether the U.S. Census Bureau should offer Hispanics the option of identifying themselves as a separate race in the 2020 count. But let’s instead ponder how accurately they’ll be defined.<\/p>\n

According to a new study<\/a> by Duke University professor Jen’nan Ghazal Read<\/a>, policymakers should be working hard to ensure that demographic subgroups are portrayed as accurately as the data allow.<\/p>\n

“While it’s great that people are concerned about how they want to self-identify, what I’m concerned about is the information we overlook,” Read told me as she described research she conducted on Public Use Microdata Samples<\/a>, or PUMS, from the 2000 census.<\/p>\n

In her study published in the journal Population Research and Policy Review<\/a><\/em>, Read used two distinct subgroups, Mexicans and Arabs, to tease out very different stories about the nature of their circumstances compared to how the census usually describes them.<\/p>\n

She found that if the census broadened its standard definition to include people who don’t identify themselves as Hispanic or Latino\u2014but who were nonetheless born in Mexico or report Mexican ancestry\u2014in the “Mexican” Hispanic origin question, the number of Mexican-Americans known to be legally in the U.S. would increase nearly 10 percent…<\/p>\n

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

Esther J. Cepeda: Debate grows over Hispanics and the 2020 Census San Jose Mercury News San Jose, California 2013-09-07 Esther J. Cepeda, Columnist The Washington Post CHICAGO\u2014A debate is raging about whether the U.S. Census Bureau should offer Hispanics the option of identifying themselves as a separate race in the 2020 count. But let’s instead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,14646,8,394,20],"tags":[15803,15802,15800,15799,15801,15798],"class_list":["post-33682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-esther-cepeda","tag-esther-j-cepeda","tag-jennan-g-read","tag-jennan-ghazal-read","tag-jennan-read","tag-san-jose-mercury-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33682","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=33682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}