{"id":63163,"date":"2022-02-21T17:59:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T17:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63163"},"modified":"2022-02-21T21:42:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T21:42:49","slug":"the-u-s-census-sees-middle-eastern-and-north-african-people-as-white-many-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63163","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. census sees Middle Eastern and North African people as white. Many don’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. census sees Middle Eastern and North African people as white. Many don’t<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

National Public Radio<\/a>
\n2022-02-17<\/p>\n

Hansi Lo Wang<\/strong><\/a>, Correspondent, National Desk<\/p>\n

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Federal government standards require the U.S. census<\/a> to count people with roots in the Middle East or North Africa<\/a> as white. But a new study finds many people of MENA descent do not see themselves as white, and neither do many white people.
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There’s a reality about race in the U.S.<\/a> that has confounded many people of Middle Eastern or North African descent.<\/p>\n

The federal government officially categorizes<\/a> people with origins in Lebanon, Iran, Egypt and other countries in the MENA region<\/a> as white.<\/p>\n

But that racial identity has not matched the discrimination in housing, at work and through other parts of daily life that many say they have faced.<\/p>\n

Younger people of MENA<\/a> descent have “had a plethora of different experiences that made them feel that some of their experiences were actually closer to communities of color in the U.S.,” says Neda Maghbouleh<\/a>, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Toronto, who has conducted research on the topic.<\/p>\n

The paradox has been hard to show through data…<\/p>\n

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

The U.S. census sees Middle Eastern and North African people as white. Many don’t National Public Radio 2022-02-17 Hansi Lo Wang, Correspondent, National Desk Federal government standards require the U.S. census to count people with roots in the Middle East or North Africa as white. But a new study finds many people of MENA descent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,26,20],"tags":[16984,9997,26413,2309,26982,2833,33074,2546,5367],"class_list":["post-63163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-politics","category-usa","tag-hansi-lo-wang","tag-kristine-ajrouch","tag-mena","tag-national-public-radio","tag-neda-maghbouleh","tag-npr","tag-sahar-aziz","tag-u-s-census-bureau","tag-united-states-census-bureau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63163","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=63163"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63183,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63163\/revisions\/63183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}