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Title: Shades of Belonging

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Publication Year: 2004

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Abstract: When census takers, pollsters or bureaucrats with application forms ask people to identify their race,most have no problem checking a box that corresponds to one of the five, standard, government-definedracial categories. In the 2000 Census, for example, 90 percent of the U.S. population was counted as eitherwhite, black, Asian, American Indian or Pacific Islander. Hispanics are the exception. While a little morethan half picked one of the standard categories, some 15 million, 42 percent of the Hispanic populationmarked some other race. Census 2000 and much other evidence suggests that Hispanics take distinctiveviews of race, and because their numbers are large and growing fast, these views are likely to change the waythe nation manages the fundamental social divide that has characterized American society for 400 years...

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Authors: Tofoya, Sonya

Publisher: Pew Hispanic Center

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education

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