{"id":37441,"date":"2014-09-21T18:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37441"},"modified":"2014-09-21T18:00:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T18:00:42","slug":"afro-latinos-seek-recognition-and-accurate-census-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37441","title":{"rendered":"Afro-Latinos Seek Recognition, And Accurate Census Count"},"content":{"rendered":"

Afro-Latinos Seek Recognition, And Accurate Census Count<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

NBC News<\/a>
\n2014-09-21<\/p>\n

Raul A. Reyes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

NEW YORK, NY — Hispanic Heritage Month<\/a> is a time to recognize the contributions of Latinos in the U.S., yet one group often feels left out of the Hispanic community. Afro-Latinos say that they struggle with acceptance from both Latinos and African-Americans. Now they are seeking recognition, acceptance \u2013 and an accurate count of their numbers. As was discussed at a recent Afro-Latino Forum conference in New York City, Latino advocates and educators are working with the U.S. Census Bureau to help make it easier for mixed-race Hispanics to report their background on the 2020 Census.<\/p>\n

The Census Bureau reports<\/a> that in the 2010 Census, 2.5 percent of the 54 million Hispanics in the U.S. also identified as black \u2013 a figure that many say is an undercount. \u201cI believe that what were hearing from the Afro-Latino community is that they do not believe that those numbers accurately illustrate the Afro-Latino community presence in the United States, and that\u2019s the dialogue that we\u2019re having,\u201d said Nicholas Jones, chief of the Bureau\u2019s Racial Statistics Branch.<\/p>\n

The Bureau is currently weighing changes in how it asks about race and ethnicity. In the 2010 Census, while over half of Hispanics identified themselves as white, 36 percent checked \u201csome other race.\u201d The significant number of Latinos who did not see themselves in traditional racial categories has led the Bureau to consider offering a combined race\/ethnicity question for 2020, offering \u201cHispanic\/Latino\/Spanish origin\u201d as a choice.<\/p>\n

The combined race\/ethnicity approach is still controversial. Some Afro-Latinos support the idea because they believe it would make the Census more accurate. Others worry that it would encourage Hispanics to think of themselves as a separate race…<\/p>\n

…\u201cAmong Latinos, the idea of talking about mixed race can still be taboo,\u201d said Ed Morales<\/a>, adjunct professor at Columbia University\u2019s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. \u201cIt\u2019s easier to say that you\u2019re Dominican or Mexican, rather than delve into your racial background.\u201d He attributes this to the traditional cultural forces at play in Hispanic culture. \u201cIn our own families, there is not a lot of discussion of being mixed race, there is not a lot of open acknowledgement of it.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Afro-Latinos Seek Recognition, And Accurate Census Count NBC News 2014-09-21 Raul A. Reyes NEW YORK, NY — Hispanic Heritage Month is a time to recognize the contributions of Latinos in the U.S., yet one group often feels left out of the Hispanic community. Afro-Latinos say that they struggle with acceptance from both Latinos and African-Americans. […]<\/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":[17922,9107,9059,15127,17921,17920,17917,17918,17919],"class_list":["post-37441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-chandra-pitts","tag-ed-morales","tag-miriam-jimenez-roman","tag-nbc-news","tag-peter-agnew","tag-peter-l-agnew","tag-raul-a-reyes","tag-raul-reyes","tag-victoria-arzu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37441","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=37441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}