According to a professor of sociology at the University of New Mexico, “how you believe another see you” may be taken into account when entering the US Census.
Nancy López, whose research interests include race, ethnicity, gender, injustice, and Latino/a Studies, refers to this as a child’s” city competition”, according to the , UNM Newsroom.
Features like as hair, facial attributes, and skin color can direct people to believe a person is an ethnicity/race the guy actually is not, López said.
Latino, in particular, can be the subjects of anti-Asian love or anti-blackness based on how they look to another.
López ( pictured ) said adding” street race” to the Census can “make visible discrimination and equity that happens based on race as a visual status”.
Although the federal Office of Management and Budget has made ethnicity and race a” co-equal” category in federal agencies, López said this does n’t mean they ca n’t also ask about” street race”.
Similar to what happens in other types of corporations like hospitals and schools.
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] But ] López says when you’re asking about race and ethnicity together, you do n’t know what you’re measuring. She says in the end, we will no longer get collecting information on contest, just race, referring to that as ‘ troubling.’
Because you are making race a priority when you are claiming that you are not making Hispanic a contest, López said,” I call it statistical belittling.” If one dares to level more than one box, you are placed in the abstract box,” two or more,” which has no useful analytical value if you’re trying to understand housing segregation or reeducations by race. ” …
” If you care about knowing things like housing prejudice, work discrimination, or , care entry, you need to put another problem,” she said. If you only inquire about your identity and do n’t include that additional inquiry,” How do you believe others see you?,”
López is the co-founder of UNM’s Institute for the Study of” Race” and” Social Justice,” which emphasizes the social status it embodies as a socially constructed category of social status in particular historical contexts as opposed to as a reified category that is necessary or fixed.
She’s even author of the ebooks” Quantcrit: An Antiracist Quantitative Approach to Educational Inquiry “and” Mapping” Race”: Essential Approaches to Health Disparities Research.”
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IMAGE: Joe Zierer/Flickr.com, U. New Mexico
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