Race and Ethnicity in the Census: Accounting for Blackness and Latinidad in the 2020 US and Mexican Census

• In Event: Unpacking Latinidad

Brief Overview

I argue that the way in which the US census asks the race and ethnicity questions overlook Afro-Latinos from its conceptions of both Blackness and Latinidad. I propose a comparative perspective taking into account lessons learned from Latin America.

Author

• Roberto Rincon, SUNY Oneonta