Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Census Categorization of Latinos
Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Census Categorization of Latinos
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The Census Bureau proposes to discontinue counting Latinos as an ethnicity and instead to move “Latino”/“Hispanic” to the list of races on its decennial population survey questionnaire. I argue that the proposal has the potential to significantly hinder the demographic count of Afro-Latinos (Latinos of African ancestry) and should be rejected because of how it facilitates the anti-Black bias within Latino public identity, which is unlawful discrimination in civil rights law. Moreover, the proposed census reform will hinder an ability to collect the statistical data (racial statistics) that concretely demonstrates the racism against Afro-Latinos for their Blackness, that is distinctive from broader Hispanic ethnic groups and White Latinos.
Keywords: Afro-Latinos, anti-Black bias, Blackness, census, civil rights law, discrimination, Latino identity, racial statistics, racism, White Latinos
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