{"id":36186,"date":"2014-04-04T17:06:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T17:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36186"},"modified":"2014-09-20T17:10:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T17:10:18","slug":"mexican-hispanic-latin-american-top-list-of-race-write-ins-on-the-2010-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36186","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mexican,\u2019 \u2018Hispanic,\u2019 \u2018Latin American\u2019 top list of race write-ins on the 2010 census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2014\/04\/04\/mexican-hispanic-and-latin-american-top-list-of-race-write-ins-on-the-2010-census\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u2018Mexican,\u2019 \u2018Hispanic,\u2019 \u2018Latin American\u2019 top list of race write-ins on the 2010 census<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research Center<\/a><br \/>\n2014-04-04<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/staff\/mark-hugo-lopez\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mark Hugo Lopez<\/strong><\/a>, Director of Hispanic Research<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jens Manuel Krogstad<\/strong>, Writer\/Editor<br \/>\n<em>Pew Research Center&#8217;s Hispanic Trends Project<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What is your race? The U.S. Census Bureau asks this question of every U.S. household, but the menu of options offered may feel limiting to some.<\/p>\n<p>On the 2010 census form, in addition to boxes marked \u201cwhite,\u201d \u201cblack or African Am. Or Negro\u201d or \u201cAmerican Indian or Native Alaskan\u201d or one of several Asian options, respondents have the option to select a box called \u201csome other race\u201d\u2014and to write in a response in a box below<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=36143\" target=\"_blank\">new Census report<\/a> released last week, about one-third of the 47.4 million self-identified Hispanics chose \u201csome other race\u201d when describing their racial identity. Among them, 44.3% wrote in Mexican, Mexican American or Mexico in the box provided. An additional 22.7% wrote in Hispanic or Hispano or Hispana as their race and another 10.0% wrote in Latin American or Latino or Latin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2014\/04\/04\/mexican-hispanic-and-latin-american-top-list-of-race-write-ins-on-the-2010-census\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Mexican,\u2019 \u2018Hispanic,\u2019 \u2018Latin American\u2019 top list of race write-ins on the 2010 census Pew Research Center 2014-04-04 Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research Jens Manuel Krogstad, Writer\/Editor Pew Research Center&#8217;s Hispanic Trends Project What is your race? The U.S. Census Bureau asks this question of every U.S. household, but the menu of options offered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,14646,8,20],"tags":[17180,14994,3122],"class_list":["post-36186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-jens-manuel-krogstad","tag-mark-hugo-lopez","tag-pew-research-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36186","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=36186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}