{"id":62677,"date":"2022-01-04T18:27:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T18:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62677"},"modified":"2022-01-04T18:27:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T18:27:03","slug":"who-the-census-misses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62677","title":{"rendered":"Who The Census Misses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who The Census Misses<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

FiveThirtyEight<\/a>
\n2021-12-13<\/p>\n

Jasmine Mithani<\/strong><\/a> and Alex Samuels<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nSibba Hartunian<\/small><\/a>
\nLarge groups of people have always fallen through the cracks of its racial categories \u2014 often by design.<\/em><\/p>\n

For James Harmoush of Colorado<\/a>, none of the census boxes quite fit.<\/p>\n

In 2010 and 2020, when the census asked him to select a box regarding his race, he picked \u201cwhite.\u201d But there\u2019s one major problem there: Harmoush doesn\u2019t \u2014 and has never \u2014 seen himself that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody would ever look at me or talk to me and say, \u2018You\u2019re white,\u2019\u201d said the 30-year-old Arab American lawyer. The son of Lebanese immigrants, Harmoush sees himself as part of a minority group, but the U.S. Census Bureau<\/a> legally classifies him as a white man.<\/p>\n

Harmoush is not alone. Many Americans we spoke with felt the census classifications \u2014 both \u201cwhite\u201d specifically as well as the other available categories more generally \u2014 do not match the way they identify. In total, we heard from over 200 people with frustrations ranging from the naming of categories (like \u201cAsian Indian\u201d to represent people with ancestry from India<\/a>) to confusion over why some racial groups, like Japanese or Samoan, were given their own boxes, while Middle Eastern, North African, Southwest Asian and others were lumped together under a catchall \u201cwhite\u201d racial group. We also heard from some Americans who were now completely rethinking how they personally identified due to the way they saw race and politics intermingle in society today…<\/p>\n

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

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