Biden admin proposes 2030 Census changes: MENA category, combined race-ethnicity question
Gracile:
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/26/1151608403/mena-race-categories-us-census-middle-eastern-latino-hispanic
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A new checkbox for "Middle Eastern or North African" and a "Hispanic or Latino" box that appears under a reformatted question asking for a person's race or ethnicity are among the early recommendations announced in a Federal Register notice, which was made available Thursday for public inspection ahead of its official publication.
If approved, the changes would address longstanding difficulties many Latinos have had in answering a question about race that does not include a response option for Hispanic or Latino, which the federal government recognizes only as an ethnicity that can be of any race.
The reforms would also mark a major achievement for advocates for Arab Americans and other MENA groups who have long campaigned for their own checkbox.
These changes are long overdue IMO.
Libertas Vel Mors:
Terrible move. Jews and Arabs are white, and the move to separate them comes from a desire to further fractionalize and divide the US. Hispanic and Latino shouldn't be a category at all.
Skill and Chance:
Quote from: North Carolina Conservative on January 26, 2023, 05:04:38 PM
Terrible move. Jews and Arabs are white, and the move to separate them comes from a desire to further fractionalize and divide the US. Hispanic and Latino shouldn't be a category at all.
I would be inclined to just say it's unconstitutional for the government to ask people this question at all.
TML:
Remember that the Trump administration put this move on hold for the 2020 census. Thus, if a Republican were to win the presidency in either 2024 or 2028, could that individual also revoke this move for the 2030 census?
President Punxsutawney Phil:
This should be done alongside White, Black, etc...
MENA is not a race, it's a broader regional identity that transcends race. Just like Latino.
I favor its inclusion on Census forms, but only as an additional thing separate from baseline racial categories.
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