The Biden administration has proposed changes to the census that advocates say would give Latinos and Middle Easterners or North Africans more visibility, but also potentially lower the White population count.
that it aims to finish the revisions by the summer of 2024. “The recommendations are preliminary — not final,” the statement said.“I can’t stress enough how much it will change everything,” said Maya Berry, executive director of the Arab American Institute, which has been advocating for Middle Eastern and North African people to have their own ethnic category on the census for more than four decades.
The number of Latinos marking “some other race” skyrocketed between 2010 to 2020, a phenomenon experts have attributed to many Latinos not seeing themselves as Black or White or any other race. “I experience the world through being Latino and through having Mexican parents, so for me it’s a very clear racial identity,” Lopez said.Under the Biden proposal, people who identify as Latino could also check a second or third race or ethnicity box, such as Black or White. And Latinos would also have the opportunity to offer more details about their ethnic origin, including whether they’re Puerto Rican, Cuban or Mexican American. Multiracial people can also check more than one race box.
In the 1930 Census, “Mexican” was listed as a racial category until some complained it could be used to single them out for deportation.
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