{"id":5307,"date":"2004-10-25T03:54:04","date_gmt":"2004-10-25T03:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5307"},"modified":"2021-06-10T22:23:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T22:23:53","slug":"hispanics-resist-racial-grouping-by-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/10\/25\/hispanics-resist-racial-grouping-by-census\/","title":{"rendered":"Hispanics Resist Racial Grouping by Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/24\/national\/24census.html\">Hispanics Resist Racial Grouping by Census<\/a><br \/>\nThe New York Times<br \/>\nOctober 24, 2004<br \/>\n By RACHEL L. SWARNS<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SILVER SPRING, Md., Oct. 23 &#8211; The music was blaring, the hair dryers humming and the hair stylists laughing in the beauty salon as one of them, Kathia Mendez, loosened her curlers and let her black hair tumble to her shoulders.  To many Americans, the vivacious young woman smiling into the gilded mirror<br \/>\nmight seem easily recognizable as a black woman.<\/p>\n<p>But like many Hispanics here, Ms. Mendez views race through a decidedly different lens. In her home country, the Dominican Republic, she is known as &#8220;india,&#8221; or Indian, a term often used for people of mixed race who do not have indigenous roots. If she was asked to describe herself in the United States census, she says, she would choose the racial category selected by nearly 15 million Hispanics in 2000: &#8220;some other race.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hispanics Resist Racial Grouping by Census The New York Times October 24, 2004 By RACHEL L. SWARNS SILVER SPRING, Md., Oct. 23 &#8211; The music was blaring, the hair dryers humming and the hair&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-5307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-racial-classifications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1nB","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7008,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5307\/revisions\/7008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}