{"id":41447,"date":"2015-06-17T17:13:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T17:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41447"},"modified":"2015-06-17T17:13:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T17:13:26","slug":"is-being-hispanic-a-matter-of-race-ethnicity-or-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41447","title":{"rendered":"Is being Hispanic a matter of race, ethnicity or both?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2015\/06\/15\/is-being-hispanic-a-matter-of-race-ethnicity-or-both\/\" target=\"_blank\">Is being Hispanic a matter of race, ethnicity or both?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research Center<\/a><br \/>\n2015-06-15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/author\/agonzalezbarrera\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ana Gonzalez-Barrera<\/strong><\/a>, Research Associate<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/staff\/mark-hugo-lopez\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mark Hugo Lopez<\/strong><\/a>, Director of Hispanic Research<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/files\/2015\/06\/FT_15.06.12_hispanicIdentity.png\" alt=\" border=\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to reporting their racial identity, Latinos stand out from other Americans. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/prod\/cen2010\/briefs\/c2010br-02.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2010 census<\/a>, for example, 94% of the U.S. population selected at least one of the five standard, government-defined racial categories \u2013 white, black, Asian, American Indian or Pacific Islander. But among Latinos, just 63% selected at least one of these categories; 37% of Latinos, or 19 million, instead selected only \u201csome other race,\u201d with many offering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2014\/04\/04\/mexican-hispanic-and-latin-american-top-list-of-race-write-ins-on-the-2010-census\/\" target=\"_blank\">write-in responses<\/a> such as \u201cMexican,\u201d Hispanic\u201d or \u201cLatin American.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Federal policy defines \u201cHispanic\u201d not as a race, but as an ethnicity. And it prescribes that Hispanics can in fact be of any race. But these census findings suggest that standard U.S. racial categories might either be confusing or not provide relevant options for Hispanics to describe their racial identity. They also raise an important question long pondered by social scientists and policymakers: Do Hispanics consider their Hispanic background to be part of their racial background, their ethnic background or both?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2015\/06\/15\/is-being-hispanic-a-matter-of-race-ethnicity-or-both\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is being Hispanic a matter of race, ethnicity or both? Pew Research Center 2015-06-15 Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, Research Associate Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research When it comes to reporting their racial identity, Latinos stand out from other Americans. In the 2010 census, for example, 94% of the U.S. population selected at least one of [&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":[20260,14994,3122],"class_list":["post-41447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-ana-gonzalez-barrera","tag-mark-hugo-lopez","tag-pew-research-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41447","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=41447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}