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Ricardo

@panafrico.bsky.social

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🇵🇦 | demographer + postdoc w/ a focus on Black statistical (in)visibility.

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

NEW: The Census Bureau's latest Federal Register notice about the 2027 American Community Survey makes no mention of the updated question about race and ethnicity it said last year it was proposing to include www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe... LEFT: December 2025 notice RIGHT: May 2026 notice

In 2027, the ACS plans to introduce an internet self-response option to the Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS) data collection operation. The Census Bureau believes there is value in offering an internet self-response option to households and people living in certain types of group quarters—

college/university student housing, group homes, military barracks, workers' group living quarters, and emergency and transitional shelters in Puerto Rico.

In addition to the internet self-response option for PRCS, the proposed content for the 2027 ACS and PRCS includes the updated race and ethnicity question, which follows OMB's 2024 Statistical Policy Directive No. 15 (SPD 15). Currently, race and ethnicity data are collected and tabulated following OMB's 1997 SPD 15 on Federal race and ethnicity data standards.

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Ricardo @panafrico.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Last year, I spoke on Blackademics (PBS) about the inconsistent ways in how some state institutions measure and classify Afro-Latinos. The talk is now live. I hope this conversation offers some context on why Black statistical visibility is so important. www.pbs.org/video/ricard...

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Ricardo @panafrico.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Forthcoming is another quantitative paper where we explore the recategorization of Black Latinos from Black categorical membership.

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Ricardo @panafrico.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Our paper suggests that White Cubans (and other Latino ethnics for that matter) may be vulnerable to being recoded by the Bureau from White to multiracial. This transplants the ideological myth of mestizaje into the U.S. census and violates respondents’ autonomy of self-id.

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Ricardo @panafrico.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

We find that White Cubans in particular were more prone to racial reclassification. This is intriguing because U.S. Cubans have historically had a higher propensity to identify as White in the census compared to other Latino ethnics.

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Ricardo @panafrico.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

This logic creates boundaries around who can and who cannot claim whiteness (based on geography). It also doesn’t consider the prevalence of White identity claims beyond the non-European context despite centuries of White resettlement and colonization in "non-White" countries.

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Ricardo @panafrico.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Per the Bureau's coding logic, White identity claims appear to be reverting to a level of exclusivity that is completely contingent on the provision of European and non-Hispanic or Latino write-in responses.

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Ricardo @panafrico.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Pub 🚨! This is one of two papers by myself and @dryasmiyn.bsky.social that explores the racial recategorization of Latinos in the 2020 census race question. In this particular article, we examine the reassignment of White Latinos out of White categorical membership link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Becoming (Non)-White by U.S. Standards: Recategorization in the 2020 Census Race Question - Population Research and Policy Review

The present study explores categorical shifts in the White Latino population in the U.S. Census following recent changes to the 2020 race question. We use ancestry data from the American Community Sur...

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Ricardo @panafrico.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

You too!

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Ricardo @panafrico.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Thank you for this!

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diasporadash.bsky.social @diasporadash.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

If you are interested in 2025 monthly virtual spaces for: -Black Latine Book Club -Race & Identity Group Coaching -Salons to process & embody praxis around Latine AntiBlackness -An AfroCuba Reading group focusing on real and material realities/nuances not dogma & fantasy forms.gle/F5nxgxAFy7tF...

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2025 Dismantling Latine AntiBlackness Community Spaces

This is an interest form for those who would like to join twice monthly community spaces. These meet-ups are virtual, twice a month each for one hour and require commitment from all those signing up. ...

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