{"id":36914,"date":"2014-07-30T14:23:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T14:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36914"},"modified":"2014-07-30T14:35:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T14:35:58","slug":"census-data-confusion-manipulation-and-latinos-of-mixed-ancestry-or-should-latino-be-a-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36914","title":{"rendered":"Census Data Confusion, Manipulation, and Latinos of Mixed Ancestry or “Should Latino be a Race?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Census Data Confusion, Manipulation, and Latinos of Mixed Ancestry or “Should Latino be a Race?”<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Presented at The Second Annual Mixed Heritage Conference
\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles
\n2014-04-16<\/p>\n

Thomas Lopez<\/strong>, President
\nMultiracial Americans of Southern California (MASC)<\/em><\/p>\n

Multiracial Americans<\/a> President Thomas Lopez delivers a talk on changing the Census categories to allow Latino to become a race. In this episode, the talk is introduced with a brief history of the Census. Special emphasis is made on how Hispanic became a Census category and mixed race people succeeded in checking one or more racial categories.<\/p>\n