{"id":36788,"date":"2014-07-02T01:21:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T01:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36788"},"modified":"2014-07-02T14:12:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T14:12:45","slug":"to-measure-more-diverse-america-solution-may-be-in-census-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36788","title":{"rendered":"To Measure More Diverse America, Solution May Be in Census Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/02\/us\/census-bureau-arabs-hispanics-diversity.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>To Measure More Diverse America, Solution May Be in Census Questions<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2014-07-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tanzinavega\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tanzina Vega<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Alexa Aviles received her census form in 2010, she was frustrated by the choices. Like all Hispanics, Ms. Aviles, a Puerto Rican who lives in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn<\/a>, was first asked to identify her ethnicity and then to answer a question about her race. Ms. Aviles, 41, who works for a nonprofit, thought, \u201cI\u2019m all of these!\u201d In annoyance, she checked Hispanic, and then identified herself as white, black and \u201csome other race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mustafa Asmar, a Palestinian-American waiter in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paterson,_New_Jersey\" target=\"_blank\">Paterson, N.J.<\/a>, does not like his options either. Arab-Americans are broadly classified as white in the census. \u201cWhen you fill out white or other, it doesn\u2019t really represent the Middle Eastern population,\u201d said Mr. Asmar, 25. \u201cI don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m white. I don\u2019t know what else to put.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the United States becomes more diverse, the Census Bureau is grappling with how to accurately classify race and ethnicity in its next decennial count in 2020. It is an issue that plays out in divergent ways for different groups. Many Hispanics, like Ms. Aviles, are frustrated that they are prompted to select from racial categories that they believe do not represent their identity.<\/p>\n<p>Many Arabs have the opposite concern: They are not asked a separate ethnicity question and are typically categorized as white, a label that many feel does not apply&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/02\/us\/census-bureau-arabs-hispanics-diversity.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Measure More Diverse America, Solution May Be in Census Questions The New York Times 2014-07-01 Tanzina Vega When Alexa Aviles received her census form in 2010, she was frustrated by the choices. Like all Hispanics, Ms. Aviles, a Puerto Rican who lives in Brooklyn, was first asked to identify her ethnicity and then to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,394,20],"tags":[17563,17565,17566,2544,17564,2640,11835,2327],"class_list":["post-36788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-alexa-aviles","tag-amer-zahr","tag-hector-r-cordero-guzman","tag-kenneth-prewitt","tag-mustafa-asmar","tag-new-york-times","tag-tanzina-vega","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36788","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=36788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}