The Bumpy Journey of Collecting Race and Ethnicity Data of Latinos (The Leadership Conference, 2024)

The Leadership Conference, a civil-rights coalition, tells the data problem’s history from the advocacy side, and it carries a detail with weight in any politics: for decades the census form could not record mixed Latino national origins at all. A child of a Mexican father and a Salvadoran mother had to pick one parent, on paper. The piece also notes that more than 90% of Some Other Race respondents were Latino.

‍ ‍https://civilrights.org/blog/the-bumpy-journey-of-collecting-race-and-ethnicity-data-of-latinos/