‘I Am Latino, I Am Also White’: Why a Latino of Mixed Ancestry Struggles With Every Form
In LAist’s Race in LA series, a mixed Latino father writes about the small absurdity that carries this whole library: school forms that treat Latino as a race that overrides everything else about his children. His question is ours: how many mixed Latinos would we count if the forms actually let us answer? The essay ends where our readers live, with his kids, which is why it works as more than an argument. Pair the form and the family photo and the counting debate stops being abstract.