Does the census release data on the numbers of African-Americans who identify as Hispanic/Latino? I thought they did somewhere.
They report total Blacks, and Non-Hispanic Blacks. You can calculate the number of Black Hispanics as the difference.
I assume people who identify as Hispanic don't identify as African-American, but rather as Black. I think they took the polite form of the N word off the census form. I wonder what they put on the Spanish-language forms.
The Census Bureau treats ethnicity as independent of race. Those who identify as Hispanic often don't use that formula.
Of Hispanic respondents:
42.2% are Other race (presumably Brown)
27.4% White and Other.
20.3% White
2.4% AIAN.
1.9% Black
1.1% Black + Other
0.7% White + AIAN
0.6% AIAN + Other
0.6% AIAN + White + Other
0.5% White + Black
0.4% Asian (based on states, I think this may be mainly Filipino)
0.3% Asian + White
0.3% White + Black + Other
0.2% Asian + Other
0.2% White + Asian + Other
0.1% NHOPI
0.1% Black + AIAN
0.1% NHOPI + Other
0.1% White + Black + AIAN
0.1% White + Black + AIAN + Other
Hispanic/Black is decidedly an Eastern phenomena.
If Congress were apportioned based on Hispanic population, California would have 109 representatives, Texas 80, Florida 40, and New York 28.
If Congress were apportioned based on Hispanic/Black population, New York would have 85 representative, Florida 45, California 44, and Texas 40.
Percentage of Hispanic population that is Black or Black+Other
Puerto Rico 13.9%
New York 9.8%
Massachusetts 8.4%
Delaware 8.1%
Pennsylvania 7.8%
Rhode Island 7.5%
District of Columbia 7.5%
Connecticut 6.8%
Mississippi 6.4%
Louisiana 5.8%
Ohio 5.8%
New Jersey 5.7%
Georgia 5.6%
Maryland 5.4%
...
Texas 1.4%
California 1.2%
Of the total population: Hispanic/Black or Hispanic/(Black+Other)
Puerto Rico 13.71%
New York 1.91%
Rhode Island 1.25%
New Jersey 1.23%
Connecticut 1.17%
Massachusetts 1.05%
Florida 1.01%
The 2020 Census asked for a subcategory for all races, including White and Black. In the past, this was only for Asian, AIAN, and NHOPI. They don't actually ask people whether they are Asian, but simply have a bunch of check boxes grouped together for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Asian Indian, Filipino, and Other Asian.
For AIAN they ask tribe.
For Blacks, presumably people will report Jamaican, Trinidadian, various West Indies, etc., as well as Nigerian, Ghanaian, etc. In the past this was possible on ancestry question on the ACS or long form. This is also true for Whites. I think the Census Bureau wanted to have a separate Middle Eastern ethnicity. But at least people might report Lebanese, etc.
