Latinos and Racial Identification in California


 

Publication Date: May 2003

Publisher: Public Policy Institute of California

Author(s): Sonya M. Tafoya

Research Area: Population and demographics

Type: Report

Coverage: California

Abstract:

Explores how Latinos respond to the racial categories used by the U.S. Census. Maintains that these responses have fashioned the "some other race" residual category into a de facto Latino racial category.