{"id":64320,"date":"2023-10-18T01:37:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T01:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64320"},"modified":"2023-10-18T01:37:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T01:37:50","slug":"an-american-puzzle-fitting-race-in-a-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64320","title":{"rendered":"An American Puzzle: Fitting Race in a Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2023\/10\/16\/us\/census-race-ethnicity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>An American Puzzle: Fitting Race in a Box<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2023-10-16<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/kk-rebecca-lai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>K.K. Rebecca Lai<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/jennifer-medina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jennifer Medina<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2023\/10\/16\/us\/census-race-ethnicity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2023\/09\/01\/us\/2023-08-14-census-race-index\/2023-08-14-census-race-index-videoSixteenByNine3000-v2.jpg\" width=\"80%\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Census categories for race and ethnicity have shaped how the nation sees itself. Here\u2019s how they have changed over the last 230 years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since 1790, the decennial census has played a crucial role in creating and reshaping the ever-changing views of racial and ethnic identity in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the centuries, the census has evolved from one that specified broad categories \u2014 primarily \u201cfree white\u201d people and \u201cslaves\u201d \u2014 to one that attempts to encapsulate the country\u2019s increasingly complex demographics. The latest adaptation proposed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Presidency_of_Joe_Biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden administration<\/a> in January seeks to allow even more race and ethnicity options for people to describe themselves than the 2020 census did.<\/p>\n<p>If approved, the proposed overhaul would most likely be adopted across all surveys in the country about health, education and the economy. Here\u2019s what the next census could look like&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2023\/10\/16\/us\/census-race-ethnicity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Census categories for race and ethnicity have shaped how the nation sees itself. Here\u2019s how they have changed over the last 230 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,394,20],"tags":[16034,33814,2546,5367],"class_list":["post-64320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-jennifer-medina","tag-k-k-rebecca-lai","tag-u-s-census-bureau","tag-united-states-census-bureau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64320","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=64320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64321,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64320\/revisions\/64321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}