{"id":36993,"date":"2014-08-06T21:57:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T21:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36993"},"modified":"2014-08-06T21:57:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T21:57:51","slug":"a-surprising-number-of-people-change-their-race-and-ethnicity-from-one-census-to-the-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36993","title":{"rendered":"A surprising number of people change their race and ethnicity from one Census to the next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2014\/08\/06\/a-surprising-number-of-people-change-their-race-and-ethnicity-from-one-census-to-the-next\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>A surprising number of people change their race and ethnicity from one Census to the next<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2014-08-06<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/pb\/emily-badger\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Emily Badger<\/strong><\/a>, Reporter<\/p>\n<p>On Census forms, the option to check a box for racial or ethnic identity presupposes that there&#8217;s an unambiguous answer: white, black, American Indian, Hispanic, etc. But identity is a fluid thing. And, it turns out, about eight percent of us change our answers to the Census questions pictured at right from one decade to the next.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Census Bureau and the University of Minnesota <a href=\"http:\/\/researchmatters.blogs.census.gov\/2014\/08\/05\/results-from-americas-churning-races-race-and-ethnic-response-changes-between-the-2000-and-2010-censuses\/?eml=gd&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\" target=\"_blank\">have calculated this<\/a> with the most comprehensive survey yet of our shifting sense of race and ethnicity, in a new working paper based on the matched responses of 162 million Americans captured in the 2000 and 2010 censuses (a preview of their findings <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=36496\" target=\"_blank\">circulated earlier this spring <\/a>is here; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=36991\" target=\"_blank\">here is the full paper<\/a>)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2014\/08\/06\/a-surprising-number-of-people-change-their-race-and-ethnicity-from-one-census-to-the-next\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surprising number of people change their race and ethnicity from one Census to the next The Washington Post 2014-08-06 Emily Badger, Reporter On Census forms, the option to check a box for racial or ethnic identity presupposes that there&#8217;s an unambiguous answer: white, black, American Indian, Hispanic, etc. But identity is a fluid thing. [&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":[17687,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-36993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-emily-badger","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36993","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=36993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}