{"id":36455,"date":"2014-05-21T15:40:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T15:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36455"},"modified":"2014-05-21T15:40:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T15:40:07","slug":"more-hispanics-declaring-themselves-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36455","title":{"rendered":"More Hispanics Declaring Themselves White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/22\/upshot\/more-hispanics-declaring-themselves-white.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>More Hispanics Declaring Themselves White<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2014-05-21<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nate_Cohn\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Nate Cohn<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"165\" data-total-count=\"165\">Hispanics are often described as driving up the nonwhite share of the population. But a new study of census forms finds that more Hispanics are identifying as white.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"382\" data-total-count=\"547\">An estimated net 1.2 million Americans of the 35 million Americans identified in 2000 as of \u201cHispanic, Latino or Spanish origin,\u201d as the census form puts it, changed their race from \u201csome other race\u201d to \u201cwhite\u201d between the 2000 and 2010 censuses, according to research presented at an annual meeting of the Population Association of America and\u00a0<a style=\"color: #326891;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2014\/05\/05\/millions-of-americans-changed-their-racial-or-ethnic-identity-from-one-census-to-the-next\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported by Pew Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"378\" data-total-count=\"925\">The researchers, who have not yet published their findings, compared individual census forms from the 2000 and 2010 censuses. They found that millions of Americans answered the census questions about race and ethnicity differently in 2000 and 2010. The largest shifts were among Americans of Hispanic origin, who are the nation\u2019s fastest growing ethnic group by total numbers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"378\" data-total-count=\"925\">&#8230;The data provide new evidence consistent with the theory that Hispanics may assimilate as white Americans, like the Italians or Irish, who were not universally considered to be white. It is particularly significant that the shift toward white identification withstood a decade of debate over immigration and the country\u2019s exploding Hispanic population, which might have been expected to inculcate or reinforce a sense of Hispanic identity, or draw attention to divisions that remain between Hispanics and non-Hispanic white Americans. Research suggests that Hispanics who have experienced discrimination are\u00a0<a style=\"color: #326891;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/01419870701568858?journalCode=rers20#.U3UIja1dXoU\">less likely<\/a>\u00a0to identify as white&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/22\/upshot\/more-hispanics-declaring-themselves-white.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Hispanics Declaring Themselves White The New York Times 2014-05-21 Nate Cohn Hispanics are often described as driving up the nonwhite share of the population. But a new study of census forms finds that more Hispanics are identifying as white. An estimated net 1.2 million Americans of the 35 million Americans identified in 2000 as [&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":[17331,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-36455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-nate-cohn","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36455","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=36455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}