Large Share of Latinos Don’t Identify With Current Race Categories

Written By Avani Haden

If you read one news article on the counting problem, make it this one. NBC reports that 19.4 million Latinos marked Some Other Race alone on the 2020 census, making a category the government does not even recognize into one of the largest racial groups in America. The piece carries an unforgettable detail: Robert Santos, the first Latino director of the Census Bureau, spent 40 years checking Some Other Race and writing in mestizo. When the person running the count has never fit the form, the form is the problem.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/latinos-census-dont-identify-racial-categories-rcna77592

Avani Haden
Previous

Racial Identification for the Self-Reported Hispanic or Latino Population: 2010 and 2020 Census (U.S. Census Bureau)
Next

Mixed-Race Brazilians Now Form the Largest Share of Population