{"id":6071,"date":"2010-03-17T21:44:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T21:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6071"},"modified":"2010-03-17T21:44:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T21:44:36","slug":"census-snapshots-an-evolving-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6071","title":{"rendered":"Census snapshots: An evolving portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"

Census snapshots: An evolving portrait<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Chicago Tribune
\n<\/a>2010-03-14<\/p>\n

Oscar Avila<\/strong>, Tribune reporter<\/p>\n

Dahleen Glanton<\/strong>, Tribune reporter<\/p>\n

Multiracial, gay and immigrant Americans question whether 2010 form captures country’s fast-changing makeup<\/em><\/p>\n

Look in the mirror and what do you see?<\/p>\n

When the census form arrives in mailboxes this week, the complex answers to that question will help paint America’s evolving portrait, with repercussions for a decade and beyond.<\/p>\n

For most people, the census will be a simple 10-minute process. For others in this nation of Barack Obama, Jessica Alba, Tiger Woods, Halle Berry, Apolo Ohno and Joakim Noah , questions of mixed race and ethnicity will prompt soul-searching over how to categorize themselves among a small but growing minority in the national fabric.<\/p>\n

The census is a montage of self-portraits that will detail the ways a nation of nearly 309 million has changed since 2000, including migration, family size and housing patterns. While that data is easier to quantify, critics say a rote list of boxes and checkmarks can’t adequately reflect all the racial and ethnic transformations…<\/p>\n

On Chicago’s South Side, the daughter of a black father and white mother will check both. Her brother will check black. Their children will write in “mixed” or “biracial.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Brazilian immigrant will mark a box that says Hispanic, though she doesn’t accept the label. A woman from Jordan won’t check Asian, though she is. A man born to a Japanese mother and white father considers himself white only at census time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another respondent may check four racial boxes like the multi-ethnic Woods, who invented his own identifier: “cablinasian,” a mix of Caucasian, black, Indian and Asian. Obama jokingly labeled himself a “mutt,” but he won’t find that box on the form…<\/p>\n

…”The lesson is that, like reality, like our lives, census data are messy,” said Jorge Chapa<\/a>, a University of Illinois professor who has consulted for the Census Bureau. “But the messiness does reflect the growing diversity and our complexity as a people. It’s closer to the truth.”…<\/p>\n

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