{"id":36803,"date":"2014-07-06T16:02:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T16:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36803"},"modified":"2014-07-06T16:02:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T16:02:26","slug":"census-bureau-explores-new-middle-eastnorth-africa-ethnic-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36803","title":{"rendered":"Census Bureau explores new Middle East\/North Africa ethnic category"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2014\/03\/24\/census-bureau-explores-new-middle-eastnorth-africa-ethnic-category\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Census Bureau explores new Middle East\/North Africa ethnic category<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research Center<\/a><br \/>\n2014-03-24<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/author\/jkrogstad\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jens Manuel Krogstad<\/strong><\/a>, Writer\/Editor<br \/>\n<em>Pew Research Center&#8217;s Hispanic Trends Project<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Organizations representing people of Middle Eastern and North African descent are asking the Census Bureau to add a new ethnic category on forms. People of this heritage are now categorized as \u201cwhite,\u201d a decades-old practice advocacy groups say is inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p>The new category would be broader than the Arab ancestry data collected by the Census Bureau since 1980. The Arab-American population is small but growing, and its exact size is disputed. The Census Bureau estimates there are 1.8 million Arab-Americans in the U.S., up 51% since 2000. But the Arab American Institute Foundation estimates there are nearly 3.7 million Arab Americans living in the country. The Arab-American population is also diverse, with people claiming ties to 22 countries and various religious backgrounds&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2014\/03\/24\/census-bureau-explores-new-middle-eastnorth-africa-ethnic-category\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Census Bureau explores new Middle East\/North Africa ethnic category Pew Research Center 2014-03-24 Jens Manuel Krogstad, Writer\/Editor Pew Research Center&#8217;s Hispanic Trends Project Organizations representing people of Middle Eastern and North African descent are asking the Census Bureau to add a new ethnic category on forms. People of this heritage are now categorized as \u201cwhite,\u201d [&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":[17180,3122],"class_list":["post-36803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-jens-manuel-krogstad","tag-pew-research-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36803","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=36803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}