{"id":39412,"date":"2015-01-13T20:10:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T20:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39412"},"modified":"2015-01-13T21:25:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T21:25:49","slug":"dont-put-race-in-a-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39412","title":{"rendered":"Don’t put race in a box"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t put race in a box<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Eastern Echo<\/a>
\nYpsilanti, Michigan
\n2015-01-11<\/p>\n

C.A. Joseph Peters<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

One ought to talk about race like one talks about their mother’s age: very rarely and very discreetly. Given the Census Bureau\u2019s<\/a> outdated categories, I say it\u2019s time for one of those rare and discreet conversations.<\/p>\n

In January 2013, Haya El Nasser<\/a> of USA Today<\/em> reported that \u201cmany [Hispanics] feel boxed in by the current race categories<\/a> . . . 95 percent of those who selected \u2018some other race\u2019 are Hispanic.\u201d Last July, Fox News Latino<\/em> reported that Detroit\u2019s<\/a> Mexico town not only withstood the brunt of Detroit\u2019s most recent downturns but was spearheading Detroit’s economic recovery. But Detroit’s growing Hispanic community gets whitewashed by the Census.<\/p>\n

By attempting to define race with neat little boxes, the Census Bureau is forcing an increasing number of Americans to check \u201cother,\u201d doing a disservice to Detroit\u2019s growing Hispanic community and to Dearborn\u2019s<\/a> already sizable Middle Eastern community. In 2010, the Census categorized Dearborn, a city where one third of the residents speak Arabic, as over 89 percent white<\/strong>. But with a term nebulous enough to include everyone from Morocco<\/a> to Murmansk<\/a> and from Riyadh<\/a> to Reykjavik<\/a>, it should be no great surprise that the Census categorizes Dearborn as whiter than Montana<\/a>. Race is difficult enough without the government trying to define it too…<\/p>\n

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

Don’t put race in a box The Eastern Echo Ypsilanti, Michigan 2015-01-11 C.A. Joseph Peters One ought to talk about race like one talks about their mother’s age: very rarely and very discreetly. Given the Census Bureau\u2019s outdated categories, I say it\u2019s time for one of those rare and discreet conversations. In January 2013, Haya […]<\/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":[19047,19044,5965,19046,5754,19045],"class_list":["post-39412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-c-a-joseph-peters","tag-dearborn","tag-detroit","tag-eastern-echo","tag-michigan","tag-the-eastern-echo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39412","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=39412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}