The next largest single-race group was White At the same time, more than 20 million Latinos identified with more than one race on the census, up from just 3 million in The increase in multiracial Latinos could be due to a number of factors, including changes to the census form that make it easier for people to identify with multiple races and growing racial diversity among Latinos.
At the same time, the number of Latinos who identify as White and no other race declined from Similar to race, Hispanics can be of any country of origin or ancestry. This results in varying patterns that relate to where people come from and how they choose to identify themselves on census surveys.
For the most part, people who trace their ancestry to these countries are not counted as Hispanic by the Census Bureau, usually because most do not identify as Hispanic when they fill out their census forms.
These patterns likely reflect a growing recognition and acceptance of the official definition of Hispanics. But by , the shares identifying as Hispanic dropped to levels closer to those seen today. What people report on census forms is not subject to any independent checks, corroborations or corrections.
The first year the Census Bureau asked everybody in the country about Hispanic ethnicity was in Some efforts were made before then to count people who today would be considered Hispanic. A portion of the U. By , the current approach — in which someone is asked if they are Hispanic — had taken hold, with some tweaks made to the question and response categories since then. However, this change did not appear in the census.
Note: This post was originally published on May 28, , by Jeffrey S. It has been updated several times since then.
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It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. Pew Research Center does not take policy positions. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. After first denying the anonymous allegations, Baldwin, 36, eventually acknowledged that she is not even half-Spanish both her parents are U. Stereotypes damage people of color, but for white, privileged women like Hillary Baldwin, they are a way to climb the Hollywood ladder.
Alec Baldwin defended his wife in a video in which he says we should consider the source of the allegations rather than, one presumes, the truth of them. In a self-made video clip of her own, Hillary Baldwin also tried to explain her story — with a lot of hair-tossing and no-makeup lighting — in a flawless American accent.
Ethnically, I am a mix of many, many, many things. Culturally, I grew up with two cultures. Perhaps the age of thinking a spray tan qualifies one as "spicy" — as white people are prone to call Latinos — is coming to an undignified close at long last. But for years, Baldwin had gotten good press in the Hispanic media, which described her as Latina or Hispanic.
He looked at me and said: "Well, you're not white nor black Hispanic maybe? I told him that "Hispanic" is not a race but an ethnic category and a little bit confused he replied: "You're right, so I do not know. I got a similar reply from a colleague who is of Mexican descent, who after staring at my face for a few seconds trying to find the answer to my question in my facial features, chose "Hispanic" as my race.
I believe that my confusion about which race I belong to is shared by many Hispanics living in the US. A curious fact of that survey is that between and , 2. US media interpreted those figures as a sign that Hispanics aspire to join the white majority, as Italians and Irish people did a century ago, when they were not universally considered white because of their Catholic background. In my case, I interpret those statistics as an example of the privileges that whites have enjoyed in the US since the country was founded, and the discrimination that still affects racial minorities who aspire to change race, if only on paper.
For me, living in this country has taught me the many nuances that still exist when it comes to talking about race, a concept in itself controversial, considered outdated by many, but that here is as valid as ever. How else could I define myself if someone asked me about my race?
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