Will Being Able to Choose Hispanic as a ‘Race’ Do a Better Job of Identifying Latinos?

In March 2024 the federal government finalized the biggest change to its race and ethnicity standards since 1997, and NBC asks the question our families care about most: will letting people choose Hispanic within one combined question actually identify Latinos better? The piece explains why the old two-part format failed people whose identity is mixed, or simply Hispanic, and it surfaces a startling practice: respondents who chose Some Other Race used to be assigned a race by the bureau afterward. The boxes are finally changing.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/latinos-views-on-making-hispanic-a-race-category-rcna147172