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Last year, I spoke on Blackademics (PBS) about the inconsistent ways in how some state institutions measure and classify Afro-Latinos. The talk is now live. I hope this conversation offers some context on why Black statistical visibility is so important.

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Forthcoming is another quantitative paper where we explore the recategorization of Black Latinos from Black categorical membership.

Our paper suggests that White Cubans (and other Latino ethnics for that matter) may be vulnerable to being recoded by the Bureau from White to multiracial. This transplants the ideological myth of mestizaje into the U.S. census and violates respondents’ autonomy of self-id.

We find that White Cubans in particular were more prone to racial reclassification. This is intriguing because U.S. Cubans have historically had a higher propensity to identify as White in the census compared to other Latino ethnics.

This logic creates boundaries around who can and who cannot claim whiteness (based on geography). It also doesn’t consider the prevalence of White identity claims beyond the non-European context despite centuries of White resettlement and colonization in "non-White" countries.

Per the Bureau's coding logic, White identity claims appear to be reverting to a level of exclusivity that is completely contingent on the provision of European and non-Hispanic or Latino write-in responses.

Becoming (Non)-White by U.S. Standards: Recategorization in the 2020 Census Race Question - Population Research and Policy Review The present study explores categorical shifts in the White Latino population in the U.S. Census following recent changes to the 2020 race question. We use ancestry data from the American Community Sur...

Pub 🚨! This is one of two papers by myself and @dryasmiyn.bsky.social that explores the racial recategorization of Latinos in the 2020 census race question. In this particular article, we examine the reassignment of White Latinos out of White categorical membership link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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