{"id":61694,"date":"2021-10-01T18:07:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T18:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61694"},"modified":"2021-10-01T18:07:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T18:07:05","slug":"1-in-7-people-are-some-other-race-on-the-u-s-census-thats-a-big-data-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61694","title":{"rendered":"1 In 7 People Are ‘Some Other Race’ On The U.S. Census. That’s A Big Data Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 In 7 People Are ‘Some Other Race’ On The U.S. Census. That’s A Big Data Problem<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

National Public Radio<\/a>
\n2021-09-30<\/p>\n

Hansi Lo Wang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nGrowing numbers of Latinos identifying as “Some other race” for the U.S. census<\/a> have boosted the category to become the country’s second-largest racial group after “White.” Researchers are concerned the catchall grouping obscures many Latinx people’s identities and does not produce the data needed to address racial inequities.
\nAda daSilva\/Getty Images<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

For Leani Garc\u00eda Torres, none of the boxes really fit.<\/p>\n

In 2010, she answered U.S. census<\/a> questions for the first time on her own as an adult. Is she of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin? That was easy. She marked, “Yes, Puerto Rican.”<\/p>\n

But then came the stumper: What is her race?<\/p>\n

“Whenever that question is posed, it does raise a little bit of anxiety,” Garc\u00eda Torres explains. “I actually remember calling my dad and saying, ‘What race are you putting? I don’t know what to put.’ ”<\/p>\n

The categories the once-a-decade head count uses \u2014 “White,” “Black” and “American Indian or Alaska Native,” plus those for Asian and Pacific Islander groups \u2014 have never resonated with her.<\/p>\n

“It’s tricky,” the Brooklyn, N.Y.<\/a>, resident by way of Tennessee<\/a> says. “Both of my parents are from the island of Puerto Rico<\/a>, and we’re just historically pretty mixed. If you look at anyone in my family, you wouldn’t really be able to guess a race. We just look vaguely tan, I would say.”…<\/p>\n

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

1 In 7 People Are ‘Some Other Race’ On The U.S. Census. That’s A Big Data Problem National Public Radio 2021-09-30 Hansi Lo Wang Growing numbers of Latinos identifying as “Some other race” for the U.S. census have boosted the category to become the country’s second-largest racial group after “White.” Researchers are concerned the catchall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,20],"tags":[17154,16984,32032,32031,14996,2309,2833,2546,5367],"class_list":["post-61694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-g-cristina-mora","tag-hansi-lo-wang","tag-julissa-arce","tag-leani-garcia-torres","tag-nancy-lopez","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr","tag-u-s-census-bureau","tag-united-states-census-bureau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61694","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=61694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61696,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61694\/revisions\/61696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}