{"id":44128,"date":"2015-11-22T22:15:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T22:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44128"},"modified":"2017-07-07T16:35:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T16:35:24","slug":"census-change-may-result-in-fewer-white-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44128","title":{"rendered":"Census change may result in fewer ‘white’ Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Census change may result in fewer ‘white’ Americans<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Times<\/a>
\n2015-11-22<\/p>\n

Associated Press<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Census Bureau<\/a> is considering changes to its race and ethnicity questions that would reclassify some minorities who were considered “white” in the past, a move that may speed up the date when America’s white population falls below 50%.<\/p>\n

Census Director John Thompson<\/a> told the Associated Press that the bureau is testing a number of new questions and may combine its race and ethnicity questions into one category for the 2020 census. That would allow respondents to choose multiple races.<\/p>\n

The possible changes include allowing Latinos to give more details about their ethnic backgrounds and creating a distinct category for people of Middle Eastern and North African descent…<\/p>\n

…William Frey<\/a>, a demographer for the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program, says the proposed changes would grant residents more freedom to define their races and ethnicities.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know if this will make a huge difference in the 2020 census on whites becoming the minority, but it could later,” said Frey, author of “Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

In the past, “white” was the only racial option available to Arab American respondents, a classification that didn’t truly reflect their social standing and hurt efforts for their political empowerment in post-Sept. 11 America<\/a>, said Samer Khalaf<\/a>, president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“If you are going to classify me as white, then treat [me] as white,” Khalaf said. “Especially when I go to the airport. So, yeah, it’s inaccurate.”…<\/p>\n

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

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