Word: hispanicism
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Some of the census findings do, in fact, show striking changes in the American landscape. For example, while non-Hispanic whites are still the majority, they make up only 69 percent of the population, versus 76 percent in 1990. And nearly 7 million Americans checked off more than one box...
TIME.com: Maybe you can explain something that's confusing to a lot of people. Why do Census Bureau analysts insist on comparing so-called "Hispanics" and blacks as minority blocs? "Hispanic" doesn't have anything to do with race, so why make that parallel?
Zuberi: Well, simply put, because the Office of Management and Budget, which makes decisions like this, told the Census Bureau to make "Hispanic" a category on the form. The so-called "Hispanic" population is a creation of this political discourse. The question then becomes, why did the OMB decide to...
There is this idea that people have mistakenly got that somehow the Hispanic population is like a racial group that you can compare to African Americans - but to suggest that white Cubans have the same experience as, say, Puerto Ricans is ridiculous.
Look, almost 95 percent of people who answered "other" with regard to the race question are Hispanic, while the rest of the population chose one of the traditional categories. A lot of Hispanics, in other words, are trying to find their racial space in America. And that leads to another...